Nov 14, 2017 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Wilderness Years
6 November 1962: Vice President Nixon gives his concession following his loss to Edmund “Pat” Brown in the 1962 California Gubernatorial race. He admonished the press in attendance for their disproportionate negative coverage of his campaign, and that this...
Oct 27, 2017 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam, Wilderness Years
By Conrad Black It is difficult now to resurrect how revolutionary and improbable it seemed fifty years ago to envision a reconstructed normal relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. In 1967 the Cultural Revolution was...
Oct 26, 2017 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Nixon's Comeback, Vietnam, Wilderness Years
By Niall Ferguson On December 10, 1967, Clare Boothe Luce decided to bring together Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon at a pre-Christmas cocktail party in her elegant apartment at 933 Fifth Avenue. It was the first meeting between the two men who, more...
Oct 12, 2017 | News, Sports
November 23, 1971. President Nixon with Redskins Coach George Allen, Redskins football players and the coaching staff. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library) By Charles Cauffman Football season has come once again. With millions of viewers tuning in to Sunday and Monday...
