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President Nixon And The “Multipolar” Mideast Strategy
The resolution this week of the budget crisis - at least for the rest of the year - has resulted in many Americans thinking once again about the problems of the Middle East. Violence continues unabated in Syria, and just yesterday, in protest of what it perceived as...
Kevin Spacey, Richard Nixon, and the Arts
Recently, Oscar winner and House of Cards star Kevin Spacey shared some surprisingly favorable words for Richard Nixon, shedding some light on the efforts of the President to extend federal support for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Spacey, a strong...
Finding Nixon in Arabia
The Obama administration recently announced that it will be freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Egyptian military on the condition that the Arab nation display credible progress toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department...
Monica Crowley Talks About Richard Nixon With Don Imus
Earlier this week Monica Crowley, the longtime contributor to Fox News who began her career as President Nixon's foreign-policy assistant from 1990 to his passing in 1994, appeared on Don Imus's radio show. As usual, the broadcasting legend made some scathing remarks...
Nixon and Moynihan: A Partnership Ahead of Partisanship
To plant the seeds of bureaucratic reform, President Nixon sought after advisors who were characterized by intellectual pugnacity and a challenger’s spirit. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the eventual head of the President’s Urban Affairs Counsel, was just the right man to...
The First Latino President
By Marshall Garvey As the issue of immigration reform is debated in Washington and America witnesses a growing Latin American voting demographic, many might be surprised to learn that the first “Latino” President was none other than Richard Nixon. In his first year in...
It’s time for Dodger baseball
As the Los Angeles Dodgers look to close out the 2013 National League Division Series over the Atlanta Braves, we look back to the 37th President's lifelong love of baseball and admiration for the "Boys in Blue." "I never leave a game before the last pitch," President...
Budget Crisis: What Would Nixon Do?
Today’s beginning of the “shutdown” of the U.S. federal government tops an icy chapter in the relationship between our branches of government. President Nixon entered office as the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1848, with both houses of Congress controlled...
Kevin Spacey Praises RN
The House of Cards star says RN did more than any President to preserve the arts in America: Richard Nixon. That may be a surprising name for you to hear. But he actually funded the National Endowment for the Arts more than any president had up until that time. H/T...
Nixon and the New Urban Landscape, Continued
The comprehensive vision President Nixon presented to Congress—a vision he demonstrated over the entire span of his presidency—included a series of seven Special Revenue Sharing programs. One of these programs would allocate $2 billion for urban community development....