Apr 2, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Today the Selective Service system is on stand-by. Every male in America between the ages of 18 and 25 must register with the Selective Service System, but never has any individual since the Vietnam War era been conscripted into service. The first and last experience...
Apr 2, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Supreme Court
The two terms of President Nixon’s administration faced a myriad of issues related to Civil Rights. One among these, which consistently provoked RN’s reaction, was that of busing, a system the Supreme Court mandated throughout the country in order to end racial...
Feb 20, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon meeting with future Nobel Laureate Dr. Milton Friedman, distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and the leading voice of the President’s Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force. On February 21st, 1970, the Gates...
Feb 9, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
The Gates Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, made possible by the works and recommendations of Martin Anderson and Milton Friedman. In April of 1967, Martin Anderson, who served as the research director for the Nixon Campaign of 1968, would go on to write a...
Nov 26, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon signs the amendment to the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 on November 26, 1969. On November 26, 1969, President Nixon signed an amendment to the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 that began the random selection or “draft lottery” for...
Sep 15, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
President Nixon with Martin Castillo, Chairman of the Interagency Community for Mexican American Affairs–as it was called in early 1969–Hank Queveda, its Executive Director, and Uraldo Palmares. President Nixon with members of the Advisory Council of the...
