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Nixon On Vietnam: A Pre-Presidential View
In the years before he was elected as President, Richard Nixon kept a relatively low profile politically. Employed by the Wall Street law firm Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander, RN had the chance to travel internationally without the burden of a political title,...
Lincoln Republicans
The polarizing rhetoric in presidential candidate Barry Goldwater’s 1964 acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention left the Republican Party torn between his and Governor Rockefeller’s loyalists. Months later, Goldwater lost in a landslide defeat to...
TIME Inc. v. Hill
In September, 1952 the Hill family of Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania was held hostage by three escaped convicts for nineteen hours. The Hills were released without incident, and two of the convicts were later killed by police officers attempting to capture them.In the...
Nixon Devotes Nationwide Effort to Finding Cancer Cure
In 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, designed to implement a series of reforms that would provide more funding and research opportunities in an effort to find methods of diagnosis and treatment, as well as a cure to the menacing disease. The...
Response to Bob Woodward’s Charges Against RN
Bob Woodward’s charge in his new book The Last of the President’s Men that President Nixon knew that the bombing of Laos and North Vietnam in the early 1970s “was not working” and “defended and intensified it in order to advance his re-election prospects” is based...
Developing Nixon’s Vietnam Policy
An early 1969 memorandum written by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger to President Nixon assesses the situation in Vietnam as it stood at the dawn of Richard Nixon’s presidency. In these 17 pages Kissinger outlined a new strategy for an old and tired war;...
POW Treatment: Personal Testimonies and the 1966 Hanoi March
Though North Vietnam continued to claim that American POWs were treated humanely and according to the international standards agreed upon at the Geneva Convention, the testimonies of ex-POWs themselves tell a very different story. Almost all American veterans of the...
The Fight Against Abuse of Tobacco
The driving force behind President Nixon’s push for the signing of the National Cancer Act is the same driving force behind contemporary reports on tobacco use: the peak of tobacco consumption in the 1960s. In a report published by the National Cancer Institute under...
Nixon’s VP Years Up For Reexamination
The Washington Times Book Review: ‘The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 By Irwin F. Gellman Reviewed by John R. Coyne Jr. - Monday, September 28, 2015 The liberal-left war on Richard Nixon’s reputation and accomplishments, waged...
Why the Arts and Humanities Mattered to President Nixon
In 2013, Oscar winner and House of Cards superstar Kevin Spacey shared some favorable words for Richard Nixon while shedding some light on the efforts of the President to extend federal support for the National Endowment for the Art and Humanities which celebrates its...