Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
On March 24, 1970, President Nixon released an extensive statement concerning the administration’s stance on ending school segregation in the South. While the number of African American children that were enrolled in desegregated school systems had increased...
Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Vice President Nixon
In 1921, Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for constitutional gender equality. The original version read: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction....
Aug 2, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
As the Cold War continued, President Nixon became the first American President to visit socialist Romania. On August 2, 1969, he delivered an arrival speech in Bucharest on US-Romanian relations, and their shared goals of peace and security. In President Nixon’s...
Aug 2, 2013 | Communism, Domestic Policy, News, Soviet Union, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey Bradley Manning, in one of the most recent high-profile court cases in America, has been convicted on 20 charges of mishandling data for providing hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to Wikileaks. Violating the Espionage Act of...
Aug 1, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
New documents released by Britain’s National Archives reveal a speech prepared on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, in 1983, to be delivered if the world have descended into nuclear war. With the Cold War constantly threatening to turn hot, this type of catastrophic event...
Aug 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
One of the most enjoyable duties of the President is accepting gifts from foreign heads of state on behalf of the United States of America. The First Family does not personally retain most of these gifts; in fact, the Constitution (Article I, Section 9) forbids US...
