Aug 15, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4uRvkAPhA] The Challenge of a Peacetime Economy “The time has come for a new economic policy,” insisted President Nixon in an address to the nation on August 15 1971. “It targets unemployment, inflation, and...
Feb 21, 2013 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
RN pictured with the Duke Law School class of 1937. Mousa Alshanteer, a freshman at Duke University, writes that his school should have more appreciation for its most successful alumnus: Richard Nixon once described “the great American legend as to how presidential...
Sep 22, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
Years after losing to RN in the 1972 presidential election, George McGovern started a small business. In part because of taxes and government regulations, it went bust. At the Houston Chronicle, Chris Ladd writes: McGovern described the lessons he learned from his...
Jul 20, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Although saying that “All in the Family” was a fun show, an article in the International Business Times notes its shortcomings as sociology: Archie Bunker claimed he was Republican, as reflected by his admiration of President Richard Nixon; and later...
Jun 7, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
FDR had Fala. RN had Checkers. Anthony Weiner has a couple of cats, to which he referred with a term that has a double meaning. Bad move: one study suggests that dog people outnumber cat people by nearly four to one. Note to the Congressman from The Great Survivor:...
