Jul 25, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, Russia, Soviet Union, The New Nixon, Vietnam
Throughout history, U.S. global primacy has been in danger when it has overextended itself politically, economically, and militarily, exhausting the American spirit, and eroding its influence abroad. The solution to the international issues that have plagued the U.S....
Jul 24, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, Kitchen Debate, News, Russia, Soviet Union
In 2009, William Safire—former speech writer for President Nixon—recalled in his New York Times piece “The Cold War’s Hot Kitchen,” the gaggle of reporters and general pandemonium surrounding the 1959 debate between then Vice President Nixon, and Soviet Premier...
Jul 23, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Reading the introductory remarks of Carol Browner at the dedication ceremony of the EPA building in Washington DC that took place on July 17, one could easily believe the agency is only twenty years old, and a product of the Clinton Administration. “Twenty years ago...
May 8, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger with Premier Chou En-lai meeting on the Shanghai Communiqué. The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, more commonly referred to as the Shanghai Communiqué, is one of the most...
May 7, 2013 | China, News
President Nixon’s China game brought Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to the negotiating table in May 1972. Since the rise of the Iron Curtain after World War II, the US-Soviet relationship was based on a balance of power. That is, both sides tried to ensure the...
