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Welfare Reform Begins with Nixon Administration
“Our States and cities find themselves sinking in a welfare quagmire, as caseloads increase, as costs escalate, and as the welfare system stagnates enterprise and perpetuates dependency.” RN, Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs August 8, 1969 Despite...
Transportation Policy, Addressing the Urban Frontier
Transportation planning, especially in metropolitan areas such as greater Los Angeles, necessitates greater attention and priority of policy makers and community members. When congestion and stop-and-go traffic on highways become the norm of every working person’s...
Memories Of President Nixon’s Western White House
There are certain places around America which are always remembered as places where Presidents have gone to get a rest, for a while, from the pressure cooker that Washington can sometimes be....places that bear the personal stamp of a Chief Executive's personality in...
Diplomatic Balancing Act
By Marshall Garvey During the United States’ pacific campaign in World War II, some of the most intense fighting occurred on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The area, which also included the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands, became known as “The Keystone of the...
Facts Speak for Themselves: RN’s Legacy of Civil Rights
“The dramatic success of our Southern school desegregation problem is eloquently told by the statistics…As far as my administration’s overall record on civil rights is concerned, I believe we can point with justifiable pride to what was accomplished.”-RN, President...
Vision Needed to Avoid Hit and Run Approach in Syria
President Obama secured support for military action in Syria from the top House Republicans, Speaker Boehner, and Majority Leader Cantor, but to what end? The President has previously stated that he isn’t interested in regime change, so ousting Assad by the US...
President Nixon At The Lincoln Memorial
During the past week there were countless articles, video clips, and broadcasts marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom - the event on the Mall involving up to 300,000 people gathered to promote civil and economic rights, which...
Richard Nixon’s Two, First Law Offices
In 1992, the city council of La Habra went into two and a half hours of deliberations, debating the demolition or preservation of Richard M. Nixon’s first law office. The City Council concluded that the site, which included RN’s law office and the Wester Hotel, did...
35th Anniversary of the White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention Part 3
[youtube https://youtu.be/wQPmWCV-UyY] The Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 gave legislative authority to the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP). The pioneering group that worked at SAODAP during the Nixon and Ford Administrations,...
Growth and the Minority Business Enterprise
By Marshall Garvey Among President Nixon’s many underrated accomplishments, perhaps his greatest is his substantial legacy in civil rights. While the movement’s defining laws, The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965), were signed by President Lyndon...