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Energy Conservation

One aspect of Richard Nixon's presidency that still has far-reaching consequences today is his effort to deal with the issues created by America's consumption of steadily decreasing energy sources. At the start of the Administration, in 1969, this did not seem to be...

Hope For All C Students

The FBI file of Pulitzer-winning columnist and Nixon White House speechwriter, the late William Safire, has become public. The Associated Press’s Jessica Gresko describes the contents: Some of the earliest material dates from 1969, when investigators did a background...

Smells Like San Clemente Spirit

A few weeks after the 37th President boarded Air Force One for his last trip as President, David Bowie stood in a studio in Philadelphia and asked the country's young Americans, "do you remember your President Nixon?" Not long after that, Neil Young, recording...

New Book On Media Myths

W. Joseph Campbell is a professor at American University School of Communications. Before he entered academia he spent 20 years as a journalist, often traveling and working abroad (in the days when major American newspapers and magazines could afford to send a fair...

He Will Be Missed

Early this morning, the world was shaken with the news that Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria were killed when their plane crashed while attempting to land amid thick fog in Western Russia. Ninety-seven people were killed in the crash, including...

The Office Of The President

President Nixon organized his White House into three functional areas: The Office of the President, the National Security Council and the Domestic Council. Each President makes his own decisions on how he wants his White House to operate. There have been seven...