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PJB on RN & JFK
Former senior adviser and speechwriter to President Nixon, Pat Buchanan, analyzes the first televised debate with Fox News' Neil Cavuto: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
Extending Opportunities for Disabled Americans
It often bewilders me how influential President Nixon’s domestic policies remain to this day. It is truly remarkable that we live in an America that President Nixon envisioned, then helped to shape and create, to a large degree – especially considering that he has...
53 Years Ago — RN and JFK Debate
On September 26, 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy squared off in the first televised debate -- forever changing American presidential politics. Watch the whole debate below:
Nixon for a New Urban Landscape
On March 5, 1972, President Nixon delivered a Special Message to the Congress onSpecial Revenue Sharing for Urban Community Development. Continuing his vision for domestic affairs, President Nixon formulated policies on the revival of not only America’s urban cores,...
Foresight for Energy Independence
It is important to understand that President Nixon’s firm stance on a sustainable domestic energy policy began before the energy crisis of 1973. At the onset of Richard Nixon’s presidency, the United States was consuming a third of the worlds’ energy production,...
“The Most Farsighted Politician of His Generation”
Many careful students of the career of President Nixon have noted his capacity to see beyond the issues of the day, and construct policies meant to ensure the welfare of future generations, not only in America but across the world. Authors who have examined this...
‘Checkers’ at 61
September 23 marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential...
Energy Consciousness Awakens During Nixon Presidency
“We passed a milestone of national awareness when we recognized for the first time that the bounty of energy resources we had taken for granted for so long was not as limitless as we had once thought.” RN, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Economic powers such as Germany...
Treating the Demand Side of the Drug War
In April, the Office of National Drug Control Policy requested a $25.4 billion budget for 2014. The total budget would be divided as such: $10.7 billion allocated to prevention and treatment, $9.6 billion for domestic law enforcement, $3.7 billion for interdiction,...
Putin’s Plea… for a Nixonian President
On September 11, Vladimir Putin exercised a freedom protected by the United States that is not widely available in his country, freedom of the press. In what spread across the internet like wild fire, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed piece, published by the...