Podcast: Irv Gellman on Vice President Nixon and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis
Portrait of Frederic Daday’s “Nixon at Andau” depicting then Vice President Nixon’s visit to the Austro-Hungarian border in December 1957 Irv Gellman is author of “The President and the Apprentice: […]
Podcast: Irv Gellman on the Behind the Scenes Story of the Kitchen Debate
Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev debate in a model of an American kitchen at the American exhibition in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park on July 24, 1959. (AP […]
Transcript: Stephen Hess on Working for Nixon and Eisenhower
Stephen Hess is author of “Bit Player: My Life with Presidents and Ideas” Transcript Jonathan Movroydis: Welcome to the Nixon Now podcast. I’m Jonathan Movroydis. This is brought to you […]
Vice President Nixon on the Future of U.S.-Japan Relations
Vice President Nixon addresses the American-Japan Society in Tokyo on November 15, 1953 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library). On November 15, 1953, then Vice President Nixon addressed the American-Japan Society in […]
New Online Exhibit: MLK
Online Exhibit: MLK Assassination – 50 Years Later April 4, 2018 Today, fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Richard Nixon Foundation looks back on […]
RN, MLK, and the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Today marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 88th birthday. Presidential historian Irv Gellman details King’s relationship with then Vice President Nixon in his very insightful […]
How ‘Checkers’ Changed the Game of Television
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old […]
10 Things to Know About Nixon the Vice President
1. On July 24, 1959, Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in a series of heated discussions at an American exhibition in Moscow. As the two continued […]
Nixon Legacy Series: Irwin Gellman
[youtube https://youtu.be/n4L1gRh6fSo] We think we know the history of Ike and Dick, but Dr. Irv Gellman reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon in his new book, “The President […]
1953: VP Nixon in Japan
The presidency of Richard Nixon played a crucial role in the development of post-World War II relations between Japan and the United States, which culminated in the return of Okinawa […]
