The War Powers Act: 40 Years of Constitutional Debate

40 years ago today, President Nixon used his presidential veto powers and controversially stood firm against the War Powers Act introduced and passed by a Democratically controlled Congress in 1973. While President Nixon was working diligently towards securing...

Finding Nixon in Arabia

The Obama administration recently announced that it will be freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Egyptian military on the condition that the Arab nation display credible progress toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department...

Putin’s Plea… for a Nixonian President

On September 11, Vladimir Putin exercised a freedom protected by the United States that is not widely available in his country, freedom of the press.  In what spread across the internet like wild fire, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed piece, published by the...

Tapes Reveal Inside Look at Détente

Newly released White House materials from the National Archives reveal a private conversation between President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in a one-on-one meeting at the White House on June 18, 1973. The meeting was the only recorded...