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RN and the Fight Against Football Fatality and Injury
Documents from the archives of President Nixon’s personal file collection reveal the President’s personal interest in football fatalities and methods towards reducing such incidents, particularly as they occurred in interscholastic high school competition where...
Richard Nixon, Setting A Post-Presidential Example
Earlier this month, an article by Anneta Konstantinides at ABC News's site considered the question of what President Obama might do after he leaves office on January 20, 2017. The President recently joked that he might go to work for ESPN, but on a more serious...
RN and the Christmas Tree of Peace
With Christmas a mere twelve days away, we are reminded of an American Christmas tradition that dates back to the 1920s when Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States: the annual lighting of the national Christmas tree. We are also reminded of President...
RN’s Support of American Allies
In a Washington Post article last week, commentator Charles Krauthammer criticized the Obama administration’s response to the definitive foreign policy crises of our time, citing failures across the board on the three ultimate international issues of the past month:...
RN and the Day of Infamy
RN answered the call for service following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946. On this day, 72 years ago, Pearl Harbor was attacked and bombed by an Imperial Japanese Navy. On the anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy,”...
RN: The Abraham Lincoln of American Indians
On the night of May 9, 1970, President Nixon made an unannounced and unprecedented visit to the Lincoln Memorial after his decision to attack North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia. He spoke to the youth who had been camped there preparing for the next day’s...
Nixon Enforces Civil Rights
By Scott Carlson A White House Press Release detailing the Nixon Adminstration's policies on the subject of desegregation of America's elementary and secondary schools. Prior to President Nixon’s first term, the first great strides were made in the civil rights...
George Weigel Remembers Peter Flanigan
On the website of First Things, papal biographer and author George Weigel reflects on the legacy of Peter Flanigan, generous philanthropist and a loyal friend and confidant of President Nixon who passed away this past summer at the age of 90. Weigel recognizes...
Is the Iran Nuclear Deal, Obama’s Nixon to China Moment?
The oft-covered Iranian Nuclear Deal and the future developments that will result from it will greatly determine the stake of U.S.-Middle Eastern relations. The initial rapprochement between Iran and the P5+1 nations has generated such conjecture over the future of...
Is Rubio the New Nixon?
Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington last week, Florida Senator Marco Rubio articulated a foreign policy more centrist than many of his peers would agree with. Among the Republican Party are interventionist hawks and libertarian isolationists....