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Growth and the Minority Business Enterprise 27 Aug 2013 | 03:03 am
Among President Nixon’s many underrated accomplishments, perhaps his greatest is his substantial legacy in civil rights. While the movement’s defining laws, The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Righ...
From the Archives: RN Pushed for Women’s Equality 24 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Newly released documents detail how President Nixon made equality for women a top priority in his administration. The materials, among the 1,400 pages of other textual material from the National Arch...
Tapes Reveal Inside Look at Détente 24 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
Newly released White House materials from the National Archives reveal a private conversation between President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in a one-on-one meeting at th...
His Remarkable Continued Service to America 24 Aug 2013 | 03:06 am
When Richard Nixon left the Oval Office in 1974, many assumed he would maintain a low profile. Instead, he confounded expectations and, through an assiduous dedication to writing and traveling, he rem...
Fulfilling our Duty to Veterans 22 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
One of the most pressing issues facing America today is that of veterans affairs. As thousands of U.S. troops come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the VA Department has struggled to keep up with provi...
Understanding RN’s Roadmap Out of Vietnam 20 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Louisiana, delivering a fiery and passionate defense of his administration’s foreign policy in – and exit strategy from – the jungles...
A Segregationist’s Change of Heart and Apology 20 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
A few months after the relatively quiet and peaceful opening of hundreds of newly integrated school districts across the South in the Fall of 1970, a unique letter reached President Nixon’s desk. The...
President Nixon’s Legacy on Parks 20 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
In the Statement on Signing Bill Designating the Ventana Wilderness, California, forty-four years ago, President Nixon wrote, “Wilderness, unspoiled by man, is deeply rooted in American history and t...
Competitive Market, Women vie for Top Spot at the Fed 19 Aug 2013 | 09:58 pm
With Ben Bernanke leaving the Federal Reserve this fall, one is left to wonder who will be appointed next chairman: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers or the current Vice Chairman, Janet Yelle...
And Recognition for the Space Race goes to… 17 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
When the history of the U.S. space program is recounted, most people tend to give the lion’s share of credit for its success to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. After all, it was Kenn...