Jun 24, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Move America Forward hosted its fourth 4th annual troopathon at the Nixon Library on Thursday, raising a total of $507,843 in care packages which will be sent to troops serving overseas. Webcast live from the Library’s magnificent East Room, guests –...
Jun 24, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On 22 June 1970, President Nixon signed into law several amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, despite his reservations regarding one amendment in particular: the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 included an amendment that lowered the voting age to 18 for...
Jun 24, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On 24 June 1974, President Nixon issued a statement about the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, a bill meant to improve water quality for both United States and Mexico residents of the Colorado River basin. Since the early 1960s, various development projects...
Jun 20, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Historically, the environment had never been a major concern of U.S. presidents. With the exception of Theodore Roosevelt, no twentieth-century president had taken an interest in environmental issues until President Nixon. During RN’s presidency, the environment was...
Jun 18, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Cara Buckley writes in the Times “Style” section: Both come from families steeped in politics. Mr. Cox, now 32, is the only child of Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox. His father, a member of an old New York family, is a lawyer and the chairman of the New...
Jun 15, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
After the SALT talks with the Soviet Union in May 1972, President Nixon returned to the United States to encourage the congressional ratification of this agreement in June of that year. RN appeared before five congressional committees in order to make a few remarks...
