Nixon on Gorbachev and Yeltsin

Nixon on Gorbachev and Yeltsin

President Nixon across Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in March 1991. (Richard Nixon Foundation) In an earlier article, we discussed former President Nixon’s advice to President George H.W. Bush about how to […]

Podcast: Kathleen Smith on Khrushchev’s Soviet Union

Podcast: Kathleen Smith on Khrushchev’s Soviet Union

Kathleen Smith is author of “Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring” [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/334211084″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Why was 1965 such a pivotal year in in the Soviet Union? How […]

Video: Nixon and Diplomatic Back Channels

Video: Nixon and Diplomatic Back Channels

Naval War College Professor Richard Moss holds up a hard drive which contains all available 2,600 plus hours of audio from the Nixon White House taping system. Richard Moss is […]

A Glimpse of Nixon’s Strategic Arms Concerns

One of the greatest accomplishments of Richard Nixon’s presidency occurred with the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks Agreement (SALT I) in 1972.  President Nixon and Soviet General Secretary […]

In the Arena Speakers: Garry Kasparov

[youtube https://youtu.be/7YgKl746LfU] November 19, 2015: Worldwide chess champion turned civil-rights activist Garry Kasparov explains why Russian President Vladimir Putin must be stopped in his new book, Winter is Coming. Kasparov […]