Feb 22, 2016 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/FbqMqgcxvzo] Did you know President Nixon did more to desegregate schools than any other president since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954? In 1968, 68% of black children in the South were attending all-black schools. By 1974,...
Feb 20, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
With President Obama now in the final year of his presidency, the discussions on the editorial pages and talk shows about his legacy will predictably increase in frequency. Some of that discussion, especially during this Black History Month, will understandably...
Nov 5, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
“Without adequate health care, no one can make full use of his or her talents and opportunities. It is thus just as important that economic, racial and social barriers not stand in the way of good health care as it is to eliminate those barriers to a good...
Oct 23, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
In 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, designed to implement a series of reforms that would provide more funding and research opportunities in an effort to find methods of diagnosis and treatment, as well as a cure to the menacing disease. The...
Sep 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
As a follow-up to the first annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality transmitted in 1970, President Nixon released a report titled, “President’s Report of Study and Surveys of the Hazards to Human Health and Safety from Common Environmental Pollution” in...
Sep 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
A May 6, 1971 memorandum from Domestic council staff member Will Kriegsman to Council of Economic Advisors Chair Paul McCracken, describes a meeting between the coal industry and representatives of President Nixon’s administration about the crash program for the...
