Drug Abuse Prevention

The idea for these forums came from a two day reunion of Nixon administration officials who worked on drug abuse treatment programs in the early 1970s, which was arranged and hosted by Dr. Robert DuPont, who had headed the DC treatment program and later was Executive...

Richard Nixon: The Final Comeback

February 10, 2017: A forum that covers President Nixon’s post-presidential years from 1974-1980 including his comeback to public life; the Frost-Nixon interviews; the writing of his best-selling memoirs, “RN;” and his valued counsel to his White House successor,...
Vietnam and the Paris Peace Accords

Vietnam and the Paris Peace Accords

On January 23, 1973, President Nixon announced that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the chief North Vietnamese negotiator, had initialed a peace agreement in Paris. A panel of former members of the National Security staff examines the chronology,...

The Opening to China

The Opening of China Nixon Legacy Forum William G. McGowan Theater National Archives, Washington, D.C. November 14, 2014 Sharply deviating from decades of silent hostility between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, President Nixon’s...