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Jack Torry: Did Nixon deliberately prolong Vietnam War?
Did Nixon deliberately prolong Vietnam War? Dayton Daily News By Jack Torry April 17, 2017 WASHINGTON - A new biography of Richard Nixon by journalist John Farrell (Richard Nixon: The Life) is the best book ever written on the former president’s life with one glaring...
Transcript: The Shanghai Communiqué in the Age of Trump
TRANSCRIPT Only One China? The Shanghai Communiqué in the Age of Trump Richard Nixon Presidential Library March 28, 2017 Program Synopsis • Video Participants Ambassador Karl Eikenberry is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow and Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative...
Ambassador Richard Solomon, 1937-2017
Solomon played a key role in "Ping Pong Diplomacy;" leading to President Nixon's opening of China The Nixon Foundation mourns the loss of Richard H. Solomon, a distinguished diplomat who helped open China to the world. He died March 13 at his home in Bethesda,...
In the Arena with John Avlon
January 30, 2017: Daily Beast Editor John Avlon came to the Nixon Library to talk about the vision of America’s first president, the topic of his new book, Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. Avlon also discussed his experience...
Nixon and School Desegregation: Perspective from George Shultz
On January 9, 2003, the Richard Nixon Foundation awarded George Shultz with the Victory of Freedom Award, an award that honors outstanding leaders who have championed the cause of freedom and personify the 37th president's principle of enlightened national interest in...
Nixon’s Revolutionary Vision for American Governance
Introduction President Nixon, though possessing the instincts and speaking the increasingly conservative language of the mainstream Republican Party all his life (his writings on domestic policy attest to this,) governed within the boundaries set by the New Deal....
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 and revealing book, The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower...
Summitry and President Nixon’s Legacy
President Nixon practiced a patient, yet powerful, form of diplomacy which aided him in his endeavor to create a lasting structure of peace While attending the 1972 Moscow Summit, President Nixon returned Soviet hospitality by inviting General-Secretary Brezhnev to...
The Dawn of the Space Shuttle
Endowed with the stunning success of the Apollo program, yet faced with the exorbitant costs of NASA, President Nixon considered a space policy shift in the second year of his presidency. On March 7, 1970, President Nixon made public his intention to redirect...
Alaska Pipeline: Energy Needs and the Environment
With the authorization of the Alaskan Oil Pipeline, Nixon successfully balanced the Nation's energy needs with its newfound environmental consciousness. Despite an atmosphere of negativity surrounding the extraction of crude oil, the United States has greatly expanded...