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To Arm or Not to Arm Syrian Rebels?
Major news sources throughout the country have reported the US Congress has delayed the shipment of military aid to the Syrian rebels. The Muslim Brotherhood, who represented the largest faction of rebel fighters, has stated that they felt, “abandoned and...
Strengthening the Bridge that Nixon Built
During the car ride from the Beijing Airport on February 21, 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai turned to President Nixon and said, “Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world—twenty five years of no communication.” Nixon’s week-long trip to China built a bridge...
Cutting the Military without a Cleaver
In an open letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee sent on July 10, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urged Congress to rethink the impending $52 billion cut from the defense budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The planned cuts are a result of the Budget Control Act...
RN Shows How to Crack the Glass
On June 10, President Obama announced the appointment of Betsey Stevenson, economist and associate professor at the University of Michigan, to the Council of Economic Advisors. This is the not the first instance of the Obama Administration’s initiative for the...
Nixon, the Courts, and the VRA
On June 25, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act after a 5-4 vote in the case of Shelby County v. Holder. Section 4b provided the formula to determine which states and local governments needed approval from the...
Twitter-esque Responses; Circa 1971
July 15th marks the 42nd anniversary of one of the most jaw-dropping moments of Richard Nixon’s presidency: the announcement of his trip to China. The Nixon administration had been secretly preparing for closer relations with the second-most-powerful Communist nation...
Curtis W. Tarr And The Draft “Lottery”
Late this week, word reached the news media of the death on June 21 of Curtis W. Tarr at his home in Walnut Creek, California. The majority of Mr. Tarr's career before his retirement was spent in the groves of academia; he was president of Lawrence University in...
Town Car Diplomacy – 40 Years Ago
This week marks 40 years since the memorable visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the United States. At the invitation of President Nixon, Brezhnev's trip was his first to the U.S. and their second summit in a...
Cartoonist Jack Ohman On Ed Nixon And David Eisenhower
Jack Ohman, as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in 1980, earned the distinction of being the youngest American cartoonist to have his work nationally syndicated. Upon graduating, he was hired at once by the Columbus Dispatch, and after...
Coverage Of The Nixon Library’s Dinner For America’s Vietnam POWs
Through this weekend, C-SPAN will periodically be broadcasting President Nixon's toast to the American POWs of the Vietnam War, at the dinner held on May 24, 1973 to celebrate their return home - to this day, the largest dinner of any kind at the White House. The...