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6.4.1970 – RN Establishes the National Council on Organized Crime
One of President Nixon’s many successful domestic policies was his fight against organized crime in the United States. On June 4, forty-one years ago, Nixon issued a statement regarding the signing of Executive Order 11534, which would create the National Council on...
6.3.1970 – Address to the Nation on the Cambodian Sanctuary Operation
On the evening of June 3, 1970, President Nixon addressed the nation on the subject of the controversial and frequently protested bombings of Cambodian sanctuaries. Begun in the spring of 1969, these classified bombings were intended to incapacitate Communist forces...
Lawrence Eagleburger 1930-2011
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger passed away today. He was 80. Eagleburger joined the foreign service in 1957 following service in the Army and completion of graduate school. He went on to serve on the National Council under President Nixon, as...
Hubert Humphrey’s Hundredth Birthday
Last Friday marked a century since the birth in South Dakota of a son to a small-town druggist named Hubert Horatio Humphrey. That boy, who received the same sonorous appelation, grew up to be mayor of Minneapolis (he moved to the Land of a Thousand Lakes for college...
News Conferences
At the Christian Science Monitor, Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term "news conference" as an alternative to "press conference." Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed's first-ever official press conference April 27. It struck me most,...
Henry Kissinger Speaks On China And The Mideast
This month, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, published his first new book in eight years, On China. (Its publisher, Simon & Schuster, has simultaneously reissued Dr....
Video: James Rogan Gives New Insight on Clinton Impeachment
Former Congressman James Rogan visited the Nixon Library Thursday to discuss his new book Catching our Flag: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment. A prosecutor and judge by trade, Rogan ascended to the elite House Judiciary Committee as a freshman...
Obama Puts The War Powers Resolution To The Test
Today marks a significant milestone in a contest between the executive and legislative branches of this nation's government that began nearly four decades ago, for it looks as if President Obama will not be asking Congress to permission to continue America's military...
RN and LBJ—An Overlooked Relationship
On May 13, 1958, while on a trip to Latin America, Vice President Richard M. Nixon found his limousine under attack by an angry mob in Caracas, Venezuela. The incident was so provocative that President Eisenhower ordered elements of the 101st Airborne Division to...
A Great Photographer’s Favorite President
Harry Benson is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, in his eighties, who has for close to sixty years been one of the most skilled personality photographers on the planet. He made his name in the '50s with pictures of everyday life in his gritty native city and of...