Jul 16, 2014 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Apollo XI aims skyward into the realm of heavens, July 16 1969. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mt9znatmyQ] Apollo 11 Launch Following the successful Translunar Injection of Apollo 11 as it exited Earth’s orbit, President Nixon released a proclamation...
Jul 15, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
The term “Nixon Shock” is generally made in reference to the August 15, 1971 speech in which President Nixon announced he would take the nation off the gold standard. But only one month prior there was an earlier Nixon shock, one which sparked lasting...
Jul 15, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger arrive in Burbank, California for the day’s major announcement. President Nixon prepares to deliver his groundbreaking announcement in an NBC studio in Burbank. When Henry Kissinger touched down in San Clemente on July 13 of...
Jul 14, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon attends the Appalachian Regional Governors Conference in Louisville, Kentucky on July 14 1970. “We are trying to bring the government to the people,” President Nixon said to a group of 11 Governors from the Appalachian Regional Commission...
Jul 10, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon, with French Ambassador Jacques Kosciusko-Horizet, receives a letter written by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France, July 10 1974. On July 10 1974, President Nixon met with the French Ambassador to the United States Jacques...
Jul 9, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and others boating on Jackson Lake at the Grand Tetons National Park near Moran, Wyoming. On this day in 1970, President Nixon relayed a comprehensive message to the Congress of the United States regarding the proposed reorganization plans to establish...
Jul 9, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Henry Kissinger meeting Chou Enlai for the first time, July 9 1971. After two years of backchannel exchanges and subtle signals of interest, Premier Chou Enlai of the People’s Republic of China on June 2 1971 delivered, in the words of National Security Council...
Jul 4, 2014 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/K89CWk_zyew] July 4, 2014: Former California congressman James Rogan introduced his new book,” ‘And Then I Met…’ Stories of Growing Up, Meeting Famous People, and Annoying the Hell Out of Them,” at the Richard...
Jul 3, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Pat Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author and former staff assistant to Nixon, writes for Townhall about the stigma associated with President Nixon and his so-called “Southern strategy,” having allegedly used racial politics to steal the South from...
Jul 2, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Muscovites watch President Nixon’s address to the Russian people on a set in a state television store. 40 years ago today, President Nixon made his second television and radio address to the people of the Soviet Union. It was the second such time RN was given...