Jun 2, 2017 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, Vietnam
An excerpt from James Bowman’s article “A wilderness of mirrors” in The New Criterion. The New York Times ran a curious piece by Peter Baker claiming that, after almost half a century, the long-dead former President Richard M. Nixon had finally been rumbled. There it...
Jun 2, 2017 | Post-Presidential Years, Pre-Presidential Years, Reports, Vietnam
Nixon biographer Farrell misinterprets a word and draws the wrong conclusion In his recent book Richard Nixon: The Life, journalist-biographer John A. Farrell claims to have found a hitherto overlooked document that proves the contention that Richard Nixon, as a...
Jan 17, 2017 | Foundation News, News Media, Vietnam
From National Review Online Conrad Black: Bogus Charges Against Nixon Like Japanese veterans of World War II stumbling, emaciated, out of the jungles of Guam and the Philippines many years after the end of the war, near-terminal victims of Watergate fever still...
Oct 24, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon signs two landmark bills to expand Veterans benefits on this day in 1972 On October 24, 1972 President Nixon signed into law two bills that significantly expanded Veterans benefits, ensuring that not only those who were returning home from Vietnam were...
Jun 28, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union, Vietnam
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States In May 1972, President Nixon faced one of the great foreign policy...
Jan 27, 2016 | Nixon Now Podcast, Podcast, Vietnam
Bruce Herschensohn is author of “American Amnesia: How U.S. Congress Forced the Surrenders of Vietnam and Cambodia.” [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243954431″...
