The Hiss Case — Still Relevant

It was the case that first introduced Richard Nixon, then a first-term congressman from California, to the national political stage sixty-four years ago.  It made all of his subsequent political success possible. It also planted seeds of animosity toward him on the...

RN and LBJ—An Overlooked Relationship

On May 13, 1958, while on a trip to Latin America, Vice President Richard M. Nixon found his limousine under attack by an angry mob in Caracas, Venezuela.  The incident was so provocative that President Eisenhower ordered elements of the 101st Airborne Division to...

GOP Candidates Should Take Cues From RN

Written for the The Daily Caller. Do Republicans need to grow up — again? Shortly after Richard Nixon’s “last press conference” on the night of his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial race — when he uttered the infamous phrase, “you won’t have Nixon to kick...

A Five-Star Book: Going Home To Glory

The snow had fallen in massive quantities the night before and the temperature had plummeted to single digits. And the man who had provided steady and unruffled guidance to the United States of America during a potentially turbulent time, likely found himself watching...