Sep 23, 2016 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket...
Mar 30, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
This week marks 47 years since the passing of one of the greatest Americans — Dwight “Ike” D. Eisenhower. A man revered for his love of family and country, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II achieved throughout his life the highest of...
Sep 2, 2015 | Nixon Biographies, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV, Vice President Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/n4L1gRh6fSo] We think we know the history of Ike and Dick, but Dr. Irv Gellman reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon in his new book, “The President and the Apprentice.” Dr. Gellman’s new book debunks the...
Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last week, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman quoted Adlai Stevenson as warning of “Nixonland” – “a land of slander and scare.” Ironically, a vivid example of scare tactics came from Stevenson’s own lips at the end of the 1956 campaign. Crudely exploiting President...
