Nov 2, 2015 | News, Nixon's Comeback, Post-Presidential Years, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, The New Nixon
The polarizing rhetoric in presidential candidate Barry Goldwater’s 1964 acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention left the Republican Party torn between his and Governor Rockefeller’s loyalists. Months later, Goldwater lost in a landslide defeat to...
Nov 21, 2014 | News, Political Strategy, Republican Party
President Nixon strategizes with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, in the Oval Office. Throughout his life, Richard Nixon displayed a tremendous mental fortitude in all that he endeavored. He carried on over this discipline as President of the United States, often...
Oct 14, 2014 | News, Political Strategy, Republican Party
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a Ken Burns documentary film that aired last month chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, members of the influential family who shaped much of 20th century American politics. One of Richard Nixon’s...
Feb 11, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, Republican Party
The Nixons and Connallys at the Connally ranch in August 1972. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s appointment of John Connally as the United States’ sixty-first Secretary of the Treasury and the early stages of what, at least at the time and to...
Oct 29, 2013 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party
President Nixon prided himself in campaigning not only for his own political ambitions, but for the greater good of the Republican Party. With the 2014 House elections approaching, the Republican Party must heed President Nixon’s campaign record to retain its House...
Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Vice President Nixon
In 1921, Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for constitutional gender equality. The original version read: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction....
