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CNN Series “The Sixties” Looks At First Nixon-Kennedy Debate
By Robert Nedelkoff As Chris Barber points out in this blog , the current season of AMC's long running series Mad Men has been exploring the life of adman Don Draper and his contemporaries during the first months of the Nixon Administration. But longtime fans of the...
President Nixon Addresses West Point’s Graduating Class of 1971
President Nixon observes the West Point Military Academy Corp of Cadets drill on May 29, 1971. 43 years ago today on May 29, 1971, President Nixon delivered the commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Grasping at the...
Remembering William Simon
"Energy Czar" William Simon, as "Energy Czar," discussing an energy conference with President Nixon on 9 February 1974. On 8 May 1974, William Simon was sworn in as the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury after serving in the Nixon Administration as Deputy Secretary of the...
Rich in Goods, But Ragged in Spirit
President Nixon delivers his first inaugural address on January 20, 1969. By Chris Barber Richard Nixon made another telling appearance on one of television’s most compelling dramas of the last ten years. Mad Men, a television series set in the 1960s that centers its...
Richard Nixon and the Duke
President Richard Nixon presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Duke Ellington on the music legend's 70th Birthday, April 29, 1969. By Chris Barber A close look at President Nixon will reveal a man who grew up with a great sense of admiration for music. An avid...
When Candor Won the Day
Forty years ago today, President Nixon spoke quite candidly at the Mississippi Economic Council, treating those gathered not only to an economic lesson but allowing them -- and those listening on television and radio -- to grasp his strategic vision of a new set of...
New Documentary Captures RN at the Game of the Century
Photo Courtesy of bigshootout.com By Chris Barber In honor of the "The Game of the Century,” the famed 1969 Texas-Arkansas battle for College football's number 1, filmmaker Mike Looney and writer George Francisco recently produced a documentary entitled The Big...
Love of the Game: RN and Baseball
Richard Nixon meeting with the 1989 Phillies Coaching Staff at Veteran’s Stadium. In a 1990 interview on the Today Show, Bryant Gumbel asked President Nixon, “If you hadn’t have gone into politics what would you have done?” President Nixon responded, with a smile:...
The Herter Committee: Forging RN’s Foreign Policy
RN and members of the Herter Committee stand in front of rice fields in northern Italy. By Chris Barber On Monday, July 30, 1947, then Congressman Richard Nixon was chosen, to his pleased astonishment, by Speaker Joe Martin to be one of nineteen members representing a...
Robert Wilkie and Roger Stone: What Would Nixon Do?
President Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev have an informal conversation. Robert Wilkie of Human Events asks the question many Nixon supporters have asked in light of America's current foreign policy foibles: Where is Dick Nixon when you need him? During the...