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8.16.1972 – RN Provides Disaster Relief
As President Nixon and his campaign team prepared for his reelection bid in the spring of 1972, a small tropical storm was winding its way north from the Yucatan Peninsula. By June 17, the storm had increased dramatically in intensity and speed, tearing its way...
Historical Literacy and Futurama
In The Guardian (UK), Mark Lawson writes that he used to think that television was bad for historical literacy. Recently, though, while watching an episode of Glee, I wondered if this theory was entirely right and asked a passing 11-year-old to list all the US...
8.10.1973 – RN Signs Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act
On August 10, 1973, President Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act, hopeful that it would not only encourage farmers to expand and produce at full capacity, but also help halt rising inflation levels. The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act set...
41 Years Ago – RN Unveils Family Assistance Plan
In a nationally televised address on August 8, 1969, RN unveiled a series of domestic policies aimed at combating welfare dependency, alleviating poverty, and making government a more effective and responsible actor at solving America's urban crisis. The center-piece...
What They’re Saying About “Going Home to Glory”
Michael Korda, author of Ike: An American Hero, comments on David and Julie Eisenhower's new book Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969: "David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower's GOING HOME TO A GLORY is a wonderfully satisfying book, at...
Video: The Road to Peking went through Bucharest
While President Nixon’s visit to Romania in 1969 was not his first to that country, it was the first visit by a President of the United States to Romania, the first to a socialist country, and the first to a state of Eastern Europe. Two years prior, having had his...
Video: Honest Abe Visits the East Room
Five hundred guests welcomed President Abraham Lincoln to the East Room today, where he spoke to youngsters about his life and how his early upbringing impacted his career choices and presidency. Honest Abe’s presentation was the fourth in the Nixon Foundation’s...
RN’s 1960 Acceptance Speech
Fifty years ago this week, RN accepted the Republican Party's 1960 presidential nomination. One passage in his acceptance speech is striking: And now I want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as a...
RN’s Early Efforts For Middle East Peace
Since his entrance onto the international stage as Vice President under President Eisenhower, President Nixon strived to maintain a healthy relationship with Middle Eastern leaders, particularly Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. At the time of his ascension to the...
Meet the Presidents: Abraham Lincoln
[youtube https://youtu.be/LW3E1d692DA] America's 16th President Abraham Lincoln speaks to children about his childhood, his adventures in the White House, and the burden of holding a nation together.