Sep 3, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union
Richard Nixon at the East-West border of Berlin in 1963, showing his papers to an East German officer for entry into East Berlin. Before President Nixon took office, stalemate defined the condition of East-West negotiations. A slight reprieve in the stalemate...
Aug 20, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News
President Nixon sits down with President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico to discuss matters of mutual interest between the neighboring nations. On this day 44 years ago, President Nixon traveled to Puerto Vallarta to begin his first official state visit to Mexico. A year...
Mar 23, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
Former members of the Nixon White House staff discuss First Lady Pat Nixon’s role on the 1972 trip to the People’s Republic of China. By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. As Michelle Obama makes her...
Mar 18, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
A replica of President Nixon’s New Jersey office at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. What did President Nixon read? That is a question often asked by school children participating in school tours at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, and...
Mar 10, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News
Nixon and Boris Yeltsin in Moscow 1991 Following Richard Nixon’s funeral service in 1994, Time Magazine ran the 37th President’s photo on the cover, for a record forty-eighth time, under the headline: “His parting advice to Bill Clinton: America Must Lead.” When it...
Mar 5, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News
By Chris Barber Having witnessed the necessity of U.S. support for post-war Western Europe under the Marshall Plan as a Congressman, Richard Nixon the President viewed his first foreign trip to Europe as priority above all else. On February 6, 1969, President Nixon...
