Nixon Today
Pat Nixon: A Historic Visit to China
[youtube https://youtu.be/NiZeCio52a4] Former members of the Nixon White House discuss Firs Lady Pat Nixon's role on the 1972 trip to the People's Republic of China.
Pat Nixon: The Early Years
[youtube https://youtu.be/BT27GbzblRQ] A window into the childhood of Thelma Catherine Ryan before she became Pat Nixon.
First Lady Pat Nixon’s 100th Birthday Party Celebration
[youtube https://youtu.be/1jJYwEfvKq8] March 16, 2012: A 100th birthday party celebration for First Lady Pat Nixon including remarks by actor and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein, President and First Lady Nixon's daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Congressman Gary...
Pat Nixon Centennial Tribute
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February 22, 1972 – Panda Diplomacy
President Nixon spent the entirety of his second day in China absorbed in meetings and talks with Chinese and American officials. While her husband was occupied attending to matters of state, First Lady Pat Nixon ventured out into the new frontier of Chinese...
The Peaceful Desegregation of Southern Schools
February 1, 2012: Secretary of State George Shultz took a look back at his years of service in the Nixon administration, remembering how he and the President led the charge to peacefully desegregate schools in America's South. As part of a series of Nixon Legacy...
RN Ends the Draft: The Creation of the All-Volunteer Force
Ending The Draft: The Creation of an All-Volunteer Force January 19, 2012 The Foundation and National Archives hosted Nixon campaign and White House officials who worked with President Nixon to end the draft and create the modern, professional, and all-volunteer force...
Confronting America’s First Energy Crisis
[youtube https://youtu.be/6DWzoXCHT_M] October 19, 2011: On the 38th anniversary of America's first energy crisis caused by the 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo, three Nixon administration officials who formulated and executed the thirty-seventh President's energy policy...
72 Years Ago – RN Exposes Alger Hiss
As the summer of 1948 uneventfully passed through July and entered August, Congressmen and Senators eagerly awaited a much needed respite to escape the sweltering heat characteristic of a Washington summer. As they lightheartedly made calls to reserve flights and...
Efficient And Streamlined Government
Introduction The Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget were created on July 1, 1970. The result was that policy making on major domestic issues was consolidated into the Executive Office of the President. Henceforth, on domestic affairs—as had been the...