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December 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of President Nixon signing the National Cancer Act of 1971.
To celebrate that visionary and transformative bipartisan legislation, the Richard Nixon Foundation hosted the first Nixon National Cancer Conference, a two-day gathering of distinguished Nobel laureates, cancer center directors, clinicians, researchers, and political and public health officials to assess the past, analyze the present, and envision the future of cancer treatment and research.
This episode focuses on the history of the National Cancer Act of 1971 and features highlights from the Nixon National Cancer Conference that took place at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
Our guest host is Chapman University Senior, Gia Roberts.
Fifty years ago today, President Nixon addressed the nation on television to announce “the most comprehensive new economic policy to be undertaken in this nation in four decades.”
Jeffrey Garten, the former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the August 1971 meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard—breaking the link between gold and the dollar—transforming the entire global monetary system.
He is the author of the book, "Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy.” Purchase the book at the Nixon Library Store: https://bit.ly/37GxuwK
Interview by Frank Gannon.
Photo: President Nixon in the Oval Office on the evening of his address to the nation on the New Economic Policy, August 15, 1971. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
In his 1970 State of the Union address, President Nixon said “The great question of the 1970s is: Shall we surrender to our surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?”
Fifty years ago, a few short months after that address, President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency.
This episode of the Nixon Now podcast explores a previously unknown and unexplored decades-long relationship between President Nixon and President Trump. During his presidency, Trump has cited his predecessor on multiple occasions. Earlier this year, a reflective Trump told reporters, “I think of Nixon more than anybody else.”
This episode of the Nixon Now podcast explores the relationship between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, one-time competitors who spearheaded worldwide humanitarian relief. The President's Club exhibit is now open at the Nixon Library.
This episode of the Nixon Now podcast explores two fascinating presidential relationships. We first delve into the bond between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, an apprentice-type relationship that created the modern vice presidency. The second segment of the podcast looks closely at John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, a friendship that preceded -–and has been overshadowed by— their rivalry in the 1960 election.
This episode of the Nixon Now podcast explores the fascinating relationship between President Franklin Roosevelt and President Lyndon Johnson. The President's Club exhibit is now open at the Nixon Library.
This episode of the Nixon Now podcast explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between President Theodore Roosevelt and President William Taft. The President's Club exhibit is now open at the Nixon Library.
This episode of the Nixon Now podcast explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between President Adams and President Jefferson. The President's Club exhibit is now open at the Nixon Library.
Nixon Foundation President Hugh Hewitt interviews author and political correspondent James Rosen about the Kent State shootings, and the lasting impact the event had on the President Nixon, the public perception of the Vietnam war, and the effort to achieve a lasting peace
Nixon Foundation President Hugh Hewitt interviews author and political correspondent James Rosen about the Kent State shootings, and the lasting impact the event had on the President Nixon, the public perception of the Vietnam war, and the effort to achieve a lasting peace
Nixon Foundation President Hugh Hewitt interviews author and political correspondent James Rosen about the Kent State shootings, and the lasting impact the event had on the President Nixon, the public perception of the Vietnam war, and the effort to achieve a lasting peace
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
"Known Unknowns: Watergate" is a nine-part video and podcast series hosted by Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, that provides an in-depth look at Watergate with leading expert and member of the Nixon Defense Team, Geoff Shepard.
Fifty years ago this week, President Nixon gave his address to the nation on the Vietnam War, popularly known as the "Silent Majority" Speech. On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore this topic with Evan Thomas, former Newsweek editor, and best selling author of serious historical biographies including, “Being Nixon: A Man Divided.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/11/podcast-evan-thomas-great-silent-majority/
Photo: Press photographers in the White House Oval Office take photos of President Nixon on the evening of his address to the nation on the Vietnam War of November 3, 1969. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore the history and mission of the White House Communications Agency or WHCA, the presidential support staff responsible for the facilitation of all communication throughout the White House, Camp David, presidential transportation, sites of major trips, and retreats like the Western White House in San Clemente. Our guest in studio is Michael Ebbing, who worked for WHCA as the head switchboard operator at Camp David.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/10/podcast-michael-ebbing-role-white-house-communications-agency/
Photo: President Nixon in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
This edition of the Nixon Now Podcast explores President Nixon’s view on the role and machinery of government, and the administrative state.
Our guest is Dr. John Marini, professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is co-editor of "The Imperial Congress: Crisis in the Separation of Powers," and author of The Politics of Budget Control, and "Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/10/podcast-john-marini-president-nixon-administrative-state/
Photo: President Nixon in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Interview Date: October 7, 2019
October 6 marked the 47th anniversary of the beginning of the October 1973 War between Israel and Arab States Egypt and Syria.
After over four years of a war of attrition between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and diplomatic efforts moving at an unhurried pace, President Nixon woke up on the morning of October 6, 1973 to a cable from Ken Keating, America’s Ambassador to Israel, reporting that Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir told him Egypt and Syria had launched a two-pronged surprise attack as Israel stood unprepared to defend itself on Yom Kippur (or Day of Atonement) the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we explore this topic with William Quandt.
He served as the Middle East hand on the National Security Councils during the Nixon and Carter administrations, and was actively involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords in 1978.
Photo: President Nixon, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir at the White House in on May 1, 1973 (National Archives)
What are the details of the "Shanghai Communiqué," the joint diplomatic declaration by President Nixon and China's leadership, after the American President's historic trip to China in February 1972? And why is it relevant today?
To examine this consequential document, we are joined by Martin B. Gold, author, attorney, lecturer at George Washington University, and floor advisor and counsel to the offices of senate majority leader Bill Frist and Howard Baker. He is the author of several books, including "Senate Procedure and Practice" and "A Legislative History of the Taiwan Relations Act."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read the Shanghai Communiqué: https://cdn.nixonlibrary.org/01/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/19110408/Joint-Communique.pdf
Read the Transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/10/podcast-martin-g…nghai-communique/
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we’re in studio with Major Garrett, CBS News Chief Washington correspondent and host of “The Takeout Podcast.” He was previously CBS’ Chief White House correspondent, and is a veteran reporter of Congress and presidential campaigns.
Major Garrett discussed how history informs a journalist's work, and his new book, “Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride: The Thrills: Chills, Screams and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency.”
Read the transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/10/podcast-major-garrett-history-informs-journalism/
Photo: Major Garrett (CBS News)
Patrick J. Buchanan ran for president three times -- in 1992, 1996, and 2000. Some say his influence can still be felt in the modern political landscape.
He worked in the Reagan administration as director of communications, but got his start under Richard Nixon first as an aide in the 1968 presidential campaign, and then as an advisor and speech writer to President Nixon.
In her new book due out this October, “Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan” Chapman University professor of political science and presidential expert Lori Cox Han judiciously selects and examines significant memos written by Buchanan that have impacted the Nixon Presidency.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, Dr. Lori Cox Han joins us in studio. Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read the transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/09/podcast-lori-cox-han-pat-buchanan-advisor-president-nixon/
Photo: Pat Buchanan with presidential candidate Richard Nixon in September 1968. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and the take over of the island country by Communist leader Fidel Castro. In April 1959, Castro traveled to Washington and met with Vice President Nixon. On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore this topic and the history of the American government’s Cuba policy with Dr. Irwin Gellman.
Dr. Gellman is a historian and Nixon biographer. He’s author of “The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952,” and “The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read the transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/09/irv-gellman-nixon-castro-cuban-revolution/
Photo: Fidel Castro and Richard Nixon on April 19, 1959 (Zuma Press).
On July 20 of this year the Nixon Foundation commemorated the 50th anniversary of America’s moon shot with AT&T at the Nixon Presidential Library with events all day on campus.
The keynote was a discussion between three White House aides who witnessed President Nixon’s historic call from the Oval Office to the moon.
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we talk to a secret service agent detailed to President Nixon, who also witnessed the phone call.
His name is David Noznesky. He was a career agent, with over 25 years of service to the country.
Read the transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/09/podcast-secret-service-agent-witnessing-president-nixons-phone-call-moon/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon made the longest long distance phone call in history, 240,000 miles to the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon. (Nixon Presidential Library)
We are now about to begin football season. On an earlier podcast, we talked Nixon’s love for baseball what they call America’s past time. On this edition we’ll talk about Nixon’s love for America’s passion, football.
On this edition, we’re back with Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, professor of history at U.S. Naval War College and author of a new book due out this October, “Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969 – 1974.
Read transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/09/podcast-nicholas-sarantakes-president-nixon-football/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: Richard Nixon was a member of the Whittier College football team. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Fifty years ago, President Nixon appointed Warren Burger as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Nixon would go on to appoint three additional justices.
Nixon believed these appointments to be one of the central pillars of his presidential legacy. On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore this topic with Michael Bobelian, contributing writer for Forbes.com, and author of “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court.”
Read the transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/08/podcast-michael-bobelian-fortas-warren-johnson-nixon-shaping-modern-court/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon visited the Supreme Court on June 23, 1969. In this photo, he is accompanied by outgoing Chief Justice Earl Warren (left) and incoming Chief Justice Warren Burger (right). (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
What was First Lady Pat Nixon’s relationship with the media during the Presidency?
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore this subject with Linda Hobgood, director of the speech center at the University of Richmond, and instructor in their department of rhetoric and communications.
She is a contributing author of a new book, "Media Relations and the Modern First Ladies: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump"
Read the transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/08/podcast-linda-hobgood-pat-nixon-press/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: Pat Nixon sitting with ABC correspondent Virginia Sherwood in the White House Yellow Oval Room on October 13, 1971. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
This special edition of the Nixon Now Podcast features Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin in a Nixon Library discussion with Nixon Foundation President and CEO Hugh Hewitt. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the Nixon Foundation presented Aldrin with its "Greatest Comeback Award." The name of the award signifies President Nixon's ability to face challenges, always come back from setbacks and achieve victory throughout his life and career.
Aldrin was being honored for his and fellow Apollo 11 astronauts' remarkable comeback to Earth -- that was one for the ages.
Hosted by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read transcript here: https://wp.me/p7XWKa-alk
Photo: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin in discussion with Hugh Hewitt in the Nixon Library East Room on July 23, 2019, as part of ceremonies commemorating the 50th anniversary of the astronauts' return to Earth. (Nixon Foundation)
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the historic moon landing. To commemorate this occasion, the Nixon Library has a new, exciting and interactive exhibit throughout the year. It’s called Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind.
Our guest today on this edition of the Nixon Now podcast not only witnessed the Apollo 11 Splashdown in the South Pacific 50 years ago. He participated in it as a young U.S. Navy lieutenant aboard the nearby USS Arlington.
His name is Jeryl Cordell. Mr. Cordell spent 21 years in the U.S. Navy. He took part in the all nuclear powered task force aboard the USS South Carolina; he was the tactical digital data links branch head for the US Commander in Chief of Pacific Command in Hawaii; and worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon in the National Military Command Center — otherwise known as the “War Room. " He was on duty the day that President Reagan was shot. His story about the Apollo events was recently featured in The San Diego Union Tribune.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon aboard the USS Hornet observing the splash down of the Apollo 11 astronauts on July 24, 1969. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to resign.
A decade later, Nixon was back as a trusted advisor to presidents dispensing wisdom on campaign strategy, and shaping the course of national and world events.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we're joined in studio with Kasey Pipes. He’s an author, speech writer, and former advisor to President George W. Bush. He’s the Norris Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College, co-founder of the issues management firm Corley-Pipes, and partner at the public affairs firm High Water Strategies.
He’s author of a newly released book, “After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: A portrait of Richard Nixon during his post-presidential years. (Richard Nixon Foundation)
On July 22, 1969, President Nixon celebrated the 100th anniversary of baseball with a White House reception of over 400 baseball greats, officials, and media.
Among those in attendance in the East Room were Pittsburgh Pirates all-star Roberto Clemente, New York Yankees greats Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, Cincinnati Reds’ Pete Rose, and other then current and future hall of famers.
Washington’s RFK Stadium was the location for the all-star game the same day. President Nixon was planning to attend, but the game rained out and was postponed to the next day when Nixon was en-route to see the splash down of the Apollo 11 astronauts in the South Pacific.
Nixon told his audience: "As far as I am concerned I just want you to know that I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would have liked to have ended up as a sports writer."
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, commemorating the 150th anniversary of baseball and President Nixon’s love for the game, we’re joined by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, historian, professor at Naval War College, and accomplished author. His newest book due out this October is “Fan-in-Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974.”
Photo: President Nixon talks to a fan on the Washington Senator's opening day at RFK stadium on April 7, 1969.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking the Hungarian Revolution and Refugee crisis of 1956, then Vice President Nixon’s visit to the Austro-Hungarian border that December, and his work on the Federal response to the crisis.
Our guest again is Irwin Gellman. He’s a historian, and the author of two major Nixon biographies, “The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years, 1946-1952,” and the President and the Apprentice: Nixon and Eisenhower, 1952-1961.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: Portrait of Frederic Daday's "Nixon at Andau" depicting then Vice President Nixon's visit to the Austro-Hungarian border in December 1957. (Richard Nixon Foundation)
This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s special message to the Congress on Control of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
President Nixon said: A national awareness of the gravity of the situation is needed; a new urgency and concerted national policy are needed at the Federal level to begin to cope with this growing menace to the general welfare of the United States.
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast we're joined by Dr. Robert DuPont. Dr. DuPont is a psychiatrist who served as a director of the White House Special Action Office on Drug Abuse Prevention. Popularly known today as the Nation’s Drug Czar.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon hosts a meeting in the Cabinet Room with bipartisan Congressional leadership to discuss narcotics control and treatment issues, October 23, 1969 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
This summer marks the 50th Anniversary of the Nixon Doctrine. One day after the Apollo 11 splashdown in the South Pacific, President Nixon articulated a foreign policy doctrine in an informal press conference on the island of Guam.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to talk the doctrine — its evolution, the context of the Vietnam War as well as its global application.
Participants:
Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University Michael Cotten, Assistant Professor of History at Temple College (Texas) Gregory Daddis, Associate Professor of History/Director of the Chapman University’s War and Society Program Luke Nichter, Professor of History, Texas A&M Central Texas Jonathan Movroydis, Moderator
Read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/2ZZp7WZ
Photo: President Nixon taking notes and studying briefing materials aboard Air Force One en route to his historic trip to China in 1972. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we explore the lives of the the three Apollo XI Astronauts. To answer these and other questions about the historic mission to the moon is Francis French.
French is a writer specializing in space flight history. He is the author of several serious books about man’s rendezvous with outer space. He has worked in the non-profit and education words, and is a sought out expert for commentary about space travel on numerous media outlets.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon with the three Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin) aboard the USS Hornet. (NASA)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking the Nixon Tapes with specific focus on President Nixon’s taped conversations about the Watergate controversy of June 1972. Our guest again is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M University, Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Read the transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/06/podcast-luke-nichter-nixon-tapes-watergate/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: Watergate Hotel (Getty Images)
This summer marks the 60th anniversary of the famous Kitchen Debate between then Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, Nixon biographer Irv Gellman talks the behind the scenes story of this historic event.
Dr. Gellman is author of The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952 and the President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961.
Read the Transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/06/irv-gellman-behind-scenes-story-kitchen-debate/
Photo: Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev debate in a model of an American kitchen at the American exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park on July 24, 1959. (AP Photo)
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
What was President Nixon's Space Policy Doctrine? Here to answer this and other questions Dr. John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, at the Elliot School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He founded the school's Space Policy Institute, and author of "John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon" and "After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program."
Read the transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/06/podcast-john-logsdon-president-nixon-apollo-program-space-policy/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon with NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher discussing a proposed space shuttle vehicle on January 5, 1972 in San Clemente, CA. (NASA)
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we’re talking the Nixon Tapes again, with specific focus on President Nixon’s taped conversations about the end of the Vietnam War in 1972 and 1973.
Our guest again is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M University, Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Read Transcript Here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/06/podcast-luke-nichter-nixon-tapes-end-vietnam-war/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
Photo: President Nixon with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in June 1969. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking President Nixon’s health care strategy with John Price. In addition to presenting two comprehensive health care proposals to Congress, Nixon signed the National Cancer Act (1971) and the Health Maintenance Organization Act (1973).
Mr. Price served as Executive Director of the Urban Affairs Council and Special Assistant to the President in the Nixon White House. He is currently at work on a book about the Nixon White House domestic policy, and has lectured extensively on this subject at Oxford’s Rothermere Institute.
Read the Transcript: https://bit.ly/2YHPdgA
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon signs the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971.(Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we discuss diplomacy, grand strategy, and leadership, from the perspective of President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger. Our guest today is Winston Lord, who worked by Dr. Kissinger’s side on every major foreign policy issue: Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East.
Lord went on to become President of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Ambassador to China, and Assistant Secretary of State. He’s the author of a book to be released this week, "Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership," and was interviewer of Kissinger's first Oral History -- produced by the Nixon Foundation -- from which the book is based.
Read the Transcript: https://bit.ly/2JentfS
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger in the Oval Office (Richard Nixon Presidential Library).
This July will mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. To commemorate the anniversary, the Nixon Library has a new interactive special exhibit that includes artifacts from the actual moon landing. It opened this week, and it runs through the year. It's called "Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind." On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we talked to the exhibit creators, William Maple, its chief designer, and Shelly DeSimone, its researcher and writer.
Learn more about the exhibit: https://bit.ly/2H7pozk
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2vFHIuf
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: The Nixon Presidential Library's new special exhibit, Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind. (William Vasta/Richard Nixon Foundation)
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we discuss the origins of the Space Race, and the behind the scenes story of America meeting the challenge to go to the Moon. Our guest is James Donovan, author of the newly released, "Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11." Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins says it’s the best Apollo book he’s ever read.
Read the transcript: https://bit.ly/2PPYe3S
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo (Charles M. Duke Jr/Associated Press)
Remembering a Statesman: President Nixon's State Funeral 25 Years Later by Richard Nixon Foundation
Last month an article appeared in Politico Magazine that commemorated the opening day of baseball 50 years ago at RFK stadium in Washington, D.C. It discussed President Nixon’s love for the game, and his relationship with then Washington Senators manager, and baseball great Ted Williams.
The writer of the piece joins us on this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast. His name is Frederic Frommer. He’s the author of "You Gotta Have Heart," a history of Washington baseball, and is head of the sports business practice at the Dewey Square Group, a public affairs firm in Washington.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read the entire piece in Politico here: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/28/richard-nixon-ted-williams-226240
Photo: President Nixon throws the ceremonial first pitch at RFK stadium on April 7, 1969 as Ted Williams, then manager of the Washington Senators (left), looks on. (Getty Images)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking the relationship between America’s 37th and 40th Presidents, both Californians, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Our guest in studio, is David Byrne. He is an adjunct professor of history at California Baptist College and Santa Monica College.
He’s the author of a new book called "Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography."
Read the Transcript: https://bit.ly/2ZtWodK
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
Photo: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (Henry Burroughs/AP).
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore the Nixon Tapes, with specific focus on President Nixon’s conversations about how he attempted to avert an economic crisis in the early 1970s. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon’s shocked the world, again, a month after he revealed that he was going to China. He announced on national television that he would be ending America’s involvement in the Bretton Woods System, and ending the practice of backing the dollar with the precious metal, gold.
Our guest again is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Read the Transcript: https://bit.ly/2L2QrkP
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: On August 15, 1971, President Nixon gave a televised address to the American people, explaining America's new economic policy. (Associated Press)
What was the situation of the Prisoners of War and Missing in Action during the Vietnam War? What was it like on the home front where many of the wives and families were left wondering where their husbands and fathers were, and when they would return home?
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore this topic with Heath Hardage Lee, author of the forthcoming book, “League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon meets with POW wives (left to right) Carole Hansen, Louise Mulligan, Sybil Stockdale, Andrea Rander, and Mary Mearns in December 1969.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we're in studio with special assistant to President Nixon, and business and civil rights leader Robert J. Brown.
Mr. Brown conceptualized and developed the minority enterprise and black college programs signed into executive order by President Nixon. He's been a confidant to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, and all America Presidents since Richard Nixon. His remarkable life is captured in his new memoir, "You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon with Robert J. Brown, and his late wife Salle Brown at the White House (Collection of Robert J. Brown).
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking the Nixon Tapes again, with specific focus on President Nixon’s conversations about Daniel Ellsberg and the case of the Pentagon Papers. Our guest again is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Read transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/03/podcast-luke-nichter-white-house-tapes-pentagon-papers/
Photo: Richard Nixon on the phone in the Oval Office (Ollie Atkins/Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dwight D. Eisenhower, America’s World War II Hero General, the planner of Normandy, and the 34th President of the United States.
Richard Nixon served as Vice President under Eisenhower. The two enjoyed a friendship and complex relationship that would last nearly two decades.
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast we speak with Irv Gellman. Dr. Gellman is a Nixon biographer. His first book about Nixon, "The Contender" covered the Congressional years. His most recent book is "The President and the Apprentice, Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952 to 1961."
Photo: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon. (Hank Walker/Time Life Pictures-Getty Images)
This week marks the 47th anniversary of President Nixon's historic trip to China. We often hear about the trip in a purely diplomatic context, but how was it planned, executed, and captured on television for the American people and the world to see.
To unpack this story we are again joined by Dwight Chapin. Chapin started his career in politics as a personal aide to President Nixon, and went on to serve as White House Appointments Secretary, and Deputy Assistant to the President.
He’s been at the center of some of the most monumental events of the Nixon Presidency including serving as Acting Director of Protocol during the China Trip. He also oversaw the White House Television Office and presidential travel.
Photo: President Nixon shakes hands with Premier Zhou Enlai as he steps off of Air Force One on February 21, 1972 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library).
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore how President Nixon built his majority winning coalition in 1972 with a forward thinking innovative appeal to younger voters.
Our guest is Seth Blumenthal, senior lecturer at Boston University and author of “Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980." You can follow him on Twitter @sethblumenthal.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon speaks at a youth rally. (Richard Nixon Foundation).
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we’re talking the Nixon Tapes again, with specific focus on President Nixon’s conversations about India’s War with Pakistan in 1971, and the international and domestic implications of U.S. policy in the conflict. Our guest again is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M University, Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Read the transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/02/podcast-luke-nichter-white-house-tapes-indo-pakistani-war-yeoman-radford-affair/
Photo: President Nixon with India Prime Minister Indira Ghandi on 4 November 1971. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
What characterized the final years of America’s engagement in the Vietnam War, specifically the policy of the Nixon administration?
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we're in studio with one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Vietnam War, Gregory Daddis. Dr. Daddis is professor of history at Chapman University, and director of its masters program in war and society. He is also a West Point graduate, and retired Army colonel. He specializes in Cold War and Vietnam War history, and is the author of a new book by Oxford University Press, "Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam."
Photo: President Nixon announces his policy toward enemy sanctuaries in Cambodia on April 30, 1970 as part of his war strategy in Indochina. (AP)
After Richard Nixon lost the 1960 Presidential Election, and the 1962 California Gubernatorial election, he made a new life with his family in New York, and became partner at an historic Wall Street Law Firm, which would eventually be named Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander. This is all in a new book by Victor Li called “Nixon in New York.” On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore Richard Nixon's legal career with Victor Li, assistant editor of the ABA Journal.
Photo: Richard Nixon with dog Checkers in Central Park (Richard Nixon Presidential Library).
On January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon took the Oath of Office for the Presidency of the United States.This month, marks the 50th anniversary of that momentous occasion.
Richard Nixon put his left hand on the Milhous Family bible held by the new First Lady Pat Nixon. Opened to Isaiah 2:4, the verse reads: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
Nixon later said in his memoirs that the major theme of his first inaugural address was peace.
On this special edition of the Nixon Now podcast, “An Answer of the Spirit” we unpack the message of peace that Nixon communicated in his first inaugural address.
Produced and narrated by Jonathan Movroydis.
Edited by Chris Barber.
Photo: President Nixon takes the Oath of Office for President of the United States, January 20, 1969.(Ollie Atkins/Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re in studio on President Nixon's 106th birthday with Scott Huesing, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and author of one of the most noted personal troop memoirs of the Second Iraq War, "Echo in Ramadi: The First Hand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq’s Deadliest City." He discusses his career in the Marine Corps, and the historic battle.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: Scott Huesing joined the Nixon Now Podcast in studio at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA, January 9, 2019. (@PeteATurner)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking the Nixon Tapes again, with specific focus on President Nixon’s conversations about diplomacy with leaders of the Soviet Union. Our guest is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M, Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Read transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/01/luke-nichter-soviet-union-white-house-tapes/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the AMB Treaty and interim Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement in Moscow on May 26, 1972.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking again about the relationship between President Nixon and the late President George Herbert Walker Bush. Our guest is former governor of New Hampshire, and chief-of-staff to President Bush, John Sununu.
He’s also author of a memoir about his time in the Bush White House, "The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re discussing the Nixon Tapes again, with specific focus on President Nixon’s conversations about rapprochement to the People’s Republic of China beginning in 1971, and culminating with the historic trip in February 1972. Our guest is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Read Transcript here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2018/12/podcast-luke-nichter-1971-1972-white-house-tapes-china/
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon's historic handshake with Premier Chou en-Lai upon stepping off Air Force One in Beijing on February 21, 1972 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library).
What characterized the relationship between President Nixon and the late President George Herbert Walker Bush? Nixon’s former foreign policy assistant Monica Crowley wrote in a Spectator Column early this month that Nixon mentored Bush, and that Bush carefully considered the elder statesman’s advice during the period of the end of the Soviet Union, and the run-up to the Gulf War. On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast Crowley discussed her column, and working for former President Nixon.
Monica Crowley is senior fellow at the London Center For Policy Research, columnist with the Washington Times, and best selling author.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore the legacy of America's seventh President, Andrew Jackson. Early in his administration, President Trump compared himself to Jackson; it's likely that he admires "Old Hickory's brashness and populist flair. Trump has even placed a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office. Why is Andrew Jackson, whose face is on America's $20 bill so important to our nation's history? Why is he significant today?
To answer these questions, we are joined by Brian Kimeade, co-host of Fox News Channel's morning show "Fox and Friends," and "The Brian Kilmeade Radio Show." He is author of books, "George Washington's Secret Six" and "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates." His most recent book, "Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans" was recently released in paperback.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: Official Portrait of President Andrew Jackson, 1835. (Ralph W.E. Earl/White House Historical Society)
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we explore how President Nixon made his improbable comeback for President in 1968 — 50 years ago — and what it was like to be in the inner workings of the campaign.
There wasn’t anyone as closely involved as Dwight Chapin, then candidate Nixon’s personal aide. Chapin went on to serve as President Nixon’s appointments Secretary, and Deputy Assistant to the president. He’s been at the center of some of the most monumental events of the Nixon Presidency including serving as Acting Director of Protocol during the historic trip to China in 1972. He also oversaw the White House Television Office and Presidential Travel.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we explore what became known as the Watergate "Road Map." In October, Politico reported that Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell granted a request to unseal a large chunk of the “Road Map” that a federal grand jury in Washington sent to the House Judiciary Committee in early 1974 as part of the Watergate investigation.
The petition to the court was made by our guest today, Geoff Shepard, author and former Nixon White House official who served as Associate Director for General Government on the Domestic Council, and deputy to Nixon’s defense attorney Fred Bruzhardt. Mr. Shepard is the author of two books about Watergate, “The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy” and "The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we talk with Stephen Hess, the Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He served as a professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University, as an advisor to Presidents Carter and Ford, and on the White House staff to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. He's the author of a dozen books including a biography of President Nixon. In this podcast we explore his new memoir, "Bit Player: My Life with Presidents and Ideas."
Photo: Stephen Hess, then chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth with President Nixon during a meeting with Dr. Edward Zigler, director of the White House Office of Child Development in 1970.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we discuss the Nixon Tapes again, with specific focus on President Nixon’s conversations with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, in 1971. Our guest again is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon White House Tapes, and founder of NixonTapes.org.
Nixon writes in his memoirs that he installed the taping system as a way to record history accurately and he mentions that the installation occurred around the time of the Lam Son 719 operation to combat Communist infiltration in Laos. He felt that much of the press coverage was wrong about the Vietnam War, and decided to give another major speech about Vietnam on April 7, 1971. It covered the Laos operation and the way forward for American policy in Indochina.
Read Transcript Here: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2018/10/podcast-luke-nichter-early-1971-tapes-vietnam/
Why did Richard Nixon install a taping system in the White House? On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we explore these and other questions about the capturing of presidential history from February 1971 to July 1973.
Our guest is Luke Nichter, Professor of History at Texas A&M University, Central Texas. He’s the nation’s foremost expert on the Nixon Tapes — and founder of NixonTapes.org, the only website dedicated solely to the scholarly production and dissemination of digitized Nixon tape audio and transcripts. He’s also co-editor of two volumes on the Nixon tapes with fellow historian Douglas Brinkley.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
For more information and transcripts click on the link below:
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2018/10/podcast-luke-nichter-origins-white-house-taping-system/
What were the United States’ relations with Thailand during the Nixon administration? On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we are joined by Kantathi Suphamongkhon, the former Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand. Dr. Suphamongkhon is a regents professor at his alma mater, the University fo California, Los Angeles, a senior fellow for international relations at the Burkle Center at UCLA, and a director of the advisory board of the Center for Asia Pacific Policy at the RAND corporation. Interview by Jonathan Movroydis. Photo of a sign with the anti-Communist message "Sock it to then hard, Nixon" taken from a motorcade in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand during President Nixon's visit on July 28, 1969.
How did the United States win the Cold War at sea? This edition of the Nixon Now podcast explores these and other questions about U.S. Maritime power with John Lehman, author of a newly released book on the subject, "Oceans Ventured."
Secretary Lehman is founding director of J.F. Lehman and Company. His government service includes serving as Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and senior staff member on the National Security Council during the Nixon administration.
Photo: President Nixon with Navy personnel, aboard the USS Saratoga flight deck duirng an Armed Forces Day celebration, May 17, 1969 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library).
Introduction Music: “Victory at Sea" by Richard Rodgers (1952)
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This edition of the Nixon Now Podcast explores how the conservative media influenced public debate about U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Our guest is author and historian Laurence Jurdem, an expert on the history of American conservatism. His writings and commentary have been featured in a wide number of publications, including National Review, the New York Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, Cold War History and the History News Network. Dr. Jurdem’s is the author of a newly released book, "Paving the Way for Reagan: The Conservative Press and the Forging of the Reagan Foreign policy 1964-1980."
President Nixon with conservative leader, writer, and commentator William F. Buckley in 1969. (Bettman / Getty)
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
Marking the 50th anniversary of the dramatic year of 1968 (which also saw the election of President Nixon), on this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we interviewed Richard Vinen for his newly released book "1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies,” which explores how the events of 1968 — from anti-war marches, worker strikes to violence on the streets of the world's greatest cities — shaped much of today’s culture.
Richard Vinen is Professor of History at Kings College, London and the author of a number of major books on 20th Century Europe. He won the Wolfson Prize for history for his previous book, "National Service."
Photo: Students flash peace signs during protests at Columbia University.(Patrick A. Burns/The New York Times).
Introduction Music: "Revolution" by the Beatles (1968).
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
Last week hearings in the U.S. Senate began for Supreme Court nominee Judge Bret Kavanaugh. In this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we look back at the justices President Nixon appointed to the highest court, and the challenges they faced in their respective confirmation processes.
Our guest today successfully shepherded through arguably one of the most consequential nominees in the past half century, Justice William Rehnquist. He did this not once, but twice: when Justice Rehnquist became associate justice in 1971, and again when he became chief justice in 1986.
Wally Johnson began his career as a special attorney in the organized crime section of the criminal division at the Department of Justice, ultimately leading the organized crime task force in Miami. He was minority counsel of the Senate judiciary subcommittee on criminal laws and procedures under ranking minority member, Senator Roman Hruska. In 1970, he was appointed by Attorney General John Mitchell as associate attorney general responsible for managing the Powell and Rehnquist confirmations before the Senate judiciary committee. From 1972 to 1973, he served in the White House in the vaunted congressional liaison office. From 1973 to 1975, Johnson served as assistant attorney general for land and natural resources. Today he remains a successful lawyer living in Cody Wyoming.
Photo: President Nixon presents Lewis Powell (shown on the left of RN) and William Rehnquist (on right of RN) framed gifts recognizing their confirmation as Supreme Court justices on December 22, 1971. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Music: "I Fought the Law" by The Clash (1977).
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
In July 1970, President Nixon delivered his special message to Congress on Indian Affairs, breaking with two centuries of unjust practices and policies against Native Americans.
Nixon said: “From the time of their first contact with European settlers, the American Indians have been oppressed and brutalized, deprived of their ancestral lands and denied the opportunity to control their own destiny. Even the Federal programs which are intended to meet their needs have frequently proven to be ineffective and demeaning.”
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast we discuss the dramatic reshaping of American Indian policy with one of the foremost experts and pioneers in Indian Law. A Harvard Law graduate, Reid Peyton Chambers served as associate solicitor for Indian affairs in the Department of Interior from August 1973 to September 1976. Since 1976, for over forty years, he’s been partner of Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson, and Perry, a law firm dedicated to representing Indian tribes and Alaskan native organizations.
He’s also author of an extensive article in the Spring 2018 University of Tulsa Law Review titled “Implementing the Federal Trust Responsibility to Indians After President Nixon’s 1970 Message to Congress on Indian Affairs.”
Photo: Richard Nixon with the Taos Pueblo Indian leaders on July 8, 1970, the same day he delivered his special message to Congress on Indian Affairs. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Introduction podcast audio: Signing ceremony returning Blue Lake (New Mexico) to Taos Pueblo Indians on December 15, 1970. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
This edition of the Nixon Now Podcast features one of the nation's foremost experts on America’s First Ladies, Carl Sferreza Anthony. He can be followed on Twitter @canthonyonline and at carlanthonyonline.com. He is the guest curator of an exciting new exhibit at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, entitled, “Why the Wore it: The Politics and Pop Culture of First Ladies’ Fashion." The colorful exhibit features actual and exact replica dresses designed to appear as if they are walking down a runway, including a dress from Melania Trump, which is presented for the first time outside Washington, D.C. However, the focus of the exhibit is not what they wore, but why they wore it. What political and pop cultural messages, overt or very subliminal, were America's First Ladies trying to convey?
Mr. Anthony is also author of an 140 page companion book of the same title as the exhibit, featuring more than 100 photographs of every First Lady from Martha Washington to Melania Trump, many never-before-seen.
Photo: First Lady Pat Nixon wore an iconic red coat on President Nixon's historic trip to China in February 1972. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
Intro Music: "American Girl" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976).
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast, we take a look at Hollywood's influence on the Civil Rights movement and the White House's work in race relations. To discuss this is Dr. Emilie Raymond, Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. An accomplished author, she has written two books about celebrity influence in U.S. politics, “From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics” and her latest, “Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore how President Nixon’s national security advisor, and later secretary of state Dr. Henry Kissinger crafted and executed negotiating strategies with leaders of foreign countries.
This three part interview was conducted with James Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. You can follow the school’s work on Twitter @harvardhbs. Professor Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations. In 1982, he co-founded, and still directs the Negotiation Roundtable at Harvard Law school. In 1994, he spearheaded the Business School’s decision to make negotiation a required course in the MBA program, and create a negotiation unit which he headed for several years. He is the founder and principal of Lax Sebenius: The Negotiation Group LLC.
He and his Harvard colleagues, R. Nicholas Burns, former diplomat and professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and Robert Mnookin, attorney and professor at the Law School, are the co-authors of a new book, “Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore how President Nixon’s national security advisor, and later secretary of state Dr. Henry Kissinger crafted and executed negotiating strategies with leaders of foreign countries.
This three part interview was conducted with James Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. You can follow the school’s work on Twitter @harvardhbs. Professor Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations. In 1982, he co-founded, and still directs the Negotiation Roundtable at Harvard Law school. In 1994, he spearheaded the Business School’s decision to make negotiation a required course in the MBA program, and create a negotiation unit which he headed for several years. He is the founder and principal of Lax Sebenius: The Negotiation Group LLC.
He and his Harvard colleagues, R. Nicholas Burns, former diplomat and professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and Robert Mnookin, attorney and professor at the Law School, are the co-authors of a new book, “Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore how President Nixon’s national security advisor, and later secretary of state Dr. Henry Kissinger crafted and executed negotiating strategies with leaders of foreign countries.
This three part interview was conducted with James Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. You can follow the school’s work on Twitter @harvardhbs. Professor Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations. In 1982, he co-founded, and still directs the Negotiation Roundtable at Harvard Law school. In 1994, he spearheaded the Business School’s decision to make negotiation a required course in the MBA program, and create a negotiation unit which he headed for several years. He is the founder and principal of Lax Sebenius: The Negotiation Group LLC.
He and his Harvard colleagues, R. Nicholas Burns, former diplomat and professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and Robert Mnookin, attorney and professor at the Law School, are the co-authors of a new book, “Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On this edition of the Nixon Now podcast the discussion is about the millions of Mexicans who emigrated to the United States fleeing persecution from Marxist and revolutionary forces, and how they became part of the social fabric of America. When Richard Nixon was a young man he sympathized with their beliefs and aspirations to attain the American dream. When Richard Nixon became president he took up their cause. Of their fathers, Nixon is recorded saying: “They are hard-working, honest, law-abiding family men and deeply Catholic.”
Our guest to discuss this subject is Dr. Henry Ramirez. Dr. Ramirez was the Chairman of President Nixon’s Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking People. He went on to serve in the same post under President Reagan. He is a speaker, scholar, educator, and author of two books: “A Chicano in the White House: The Nixon No One Knew” and “Nixon and the Mexicans: How a Young Man Encountered the Diaspora of 1913-1930 and Made a Difference.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
What were U.S.-China relations immediately after World War II? In December 1945, Five-Star General George Marshall came out of retirement to help usher in a new era of political stability in China. China had finished a long war with Japan, and had its own internal struggles between nationalists and communists.
On this edition of the podcast, we explore this subject with Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, author of the newly released, “The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945-1947."
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is the executive editor of Foreign Affairs. He previously served in the U.S. State Department as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning Staff. His reportage and analysis have appeared in publications including the New York Times and The New Yorker.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
On August 8, 1969, President Nixon laid out his domestic policy vision for America. He in particular took aim at the Welfare State, saying that "it brought cities to financial disaster" and had enormous social costs, breaking up homes, penalizing work, and robbing recipients of dignity.
On this edition of the podcast, we discuss this subject with John R. Price. Price is a graduate of Grinnell College and Harvard Law School. He is also the recipient of Oxford University's prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He was the president and CEO of Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh from 2006 to 2010 and earlier, a managing director of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. He is currently at work on a book about President Nixon's stance on political and public policy issues.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon with Urban Affairs Advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1970 (AP)
On July 30, 1947, then Congressman Nixon was selected by Speaker of the House Joe Martin to to be one of the nineteen members of a select committee headed by Congressman Christian Herter to make a trip to Europe and prepare a report in connection with the post -war foreign aid plan that Secretary of State George Marshall unveiled at Harvard University in June of that year.
“I learned a great deal from the Herter Committee trip,” Nixon later recalled. “I had taken a poll and found that 75 percent of my constituents in the 12th district [of California] were resolutely opposed to any foreign aid. This was the first time I had experienced the classical dilemma, so eloquently described by Edmund Burke, that is faced at one time or another by almost any elected official in a democracy: how much should his voters register his constituents’ opinions, and how much should they represent his own views and convictions? After what I had seen in and learned in Europe, I believed so strongly in the necessity of extending economic aid that I felt I had no choice but to vote my conscience and then try my hardest to convince my constituents.”
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we discuss the history of the Marshall Plan with Benn Steil.
Dr. Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a scholarly economics journal; lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog; and creator of three web-based interactives tracking Sovereign Risk, Global Monetary Policy, and Central Bank Currency Swaps. Prior to his joining the Council in 1999, he was director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
His previous book “The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order” was called “a triumph of economic and diplomatic history” by the Financial Times.
His new book, which he discusses in this podcast is called the “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War.”
The Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis calls the book “An Outstanding — and certainly timely — accomplishment. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, says this book “will open eyes and minds.”
Highlights:
— Overview of the state of post-war Europe — Political attitudes in the United States following World War II — Who was George Marshall? — Soviet activity in post-war Europe — The theory of containment. — How the Marshall Plan was devised — U.S. Congress’s reaction to the Marshall Plan, and other criticisms — The legacy of the Marshall Plan
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Where did President Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972 and official normalization between the two countries in 1979 leave Taiwan, the small and thriving Asian democracy that had been a staunch ally of the United States in the Cold War era.
On this edition of the podcast we speak with Martin B. Gold. Mr. Gold is author of "A Legislative History of the Taiwan Relations Act: Bridging the Straight." His book examines the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, which defined U.S.-Taiwan relations after the United States diplomatic recognition of China. It analyzes how the legislation was shaped after extensive hearings, lengthy debates, and shared disagreement in Congress eventually achieved broad consensus.
Gold is an an attorney in Washington and on the faculty of at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. He knows the subject well because he worked as a senior staffer for a decade when this all took place. First for Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR) and then Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker (R-TN).
Senator Orrin Harch of Utah says this of "A Legislative History of the Taiwan Relations Act:" “Gold reminds us of a time when policies were crafted and ideas were considered based on both particular interests and arguments in favor of the common good.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
How did the Republican Party evolve ideologically in America over the half past half century? This edition of the Nixon Now Podcast explores this question through the lives of four of its leaders: Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.
Our guest is Dr. Donald Critchlow, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, and the founding president of the Institute for Political History. He is the author of many books including “Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade,” “The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History,” and “Future Right: Forging a New Republican Majority.” The book he discussed on this edition of the podcast is “Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan,” which Nixon biographer and former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas calls “engagingly wrought, persuasive, and highly relevant to today’s political scene.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Top Photo and Caption: Governor Nelson Rockefeller with Presidential candidate Richard Nixon (soon to be elected), and his wife Pat (on the right) in Albany, in front of the capital building. October 28, 1968 (New York State Archives)
On April 10, 1962 Walter O'Malley's vision for the Los Angeles Dodgers triumphed when he opened his new privately constructed stadium. It was five years in the making, and wasn't without controversy, as various civic visions and social forces clashed. One thing was certain about Dodger Stadium: it had a profound effect on the city's identity in the 20th Century. In this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, Jerald Podair, author of "City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles" tell this gripping story. Jerald Podair is professor of history and the Robert S. French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the Allan Nevins Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians for "literary distinction in the writing of history." Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Why was the 1970s such a pivotal decade for US-Arab relations? Salim Yaqub professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara argues that Arabs and Americans came to know each other as never before whether in the highest levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, and in the imagination. In this edition of the Nixon Now podcast we explore this subject with Dr. Yaqub, author of "Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s." Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
Why was 1956 such a pivotal year in in the Soviet Union? How did it help set the course of the past half century of Russian history. Joining us on this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast to answer these questions is Kathleen Smith. Dr. Smith is Professor of Teaching at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her area of expertise is issues of memory and historical politics of Russia. She is author of “Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring.” Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
How did Ronald Reagan emerge as a national figure, and come to challenge Richard Nixon for the GOP nomination for President in 1968? This edition of the Nixon Now Podcast features Gene Kopelson.
Gene Kopelson is president of the New England chapter, and on the Board of Trustees, of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, an active Churchillian, and a holocaust educator. As a historian, he has published works on Theodore Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet, Ronald Reagan’s 1966 campaign and Mexican American voters, the 1968 Nebraska and Oregon Republican primaries, and Washington State Republican politics in the 1960s. The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial featured his research on Robert F. Kennedy as an inspiration to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. His research on Reagan and Eisenhower was featured in 2015 at the 125th Commemoration of the Birth of Dwight Eisenhower at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. He’s a medical doctor — an oncologist by training — and the author of a new book called “Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan's Emergence as a World Statesman.” Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
Photo: Henry Burroughs/AP
What is the role of the White House Chief of Staff, and what effect have they had in the governance of a presidential administration? This edition of the Nixon Now podcast features Chris Whipple, author of “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.” Chris Whipple is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker, a writer, journalist, and speaker. A Peabody and Emmy Award Winning Producer of CBS 60 minutes and ABC’s Primetime, he’s the chief executive officer of CCWHIP Productions. Most recently he was the writer and executive producer of Showtime’s "The Spymasters: CIA in the Cross Hairs." Of the “Gatekeepers,” Jonathan Alter says “Through Whipple’s discerning lens, we learn scores of new things about how government really works at the highest level.” Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This edition of the Nixon Now podcast features author Peter Conradi on the dramatic aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, and the rise of Putin’s Russia. The conversation includes story behind Nixon’s critique of the George H.W. Bush administration’s handling of U.S.-Russia relations.
Conradi is the foreign editor of The Sunday Times. During his seven years as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, Conradi witnessed the USSR’s collapse first-hand. His previous books include include "Hitler’s Piano Player" and the international bestseller “The King’s Speech” co-authored with Mark Logue, which told the real-life story behind the Oscar-Winning film. He’s also the author of a newly released book, “Who Lost Russia: How the World Entered A New Cold War,” which the New York Times is calling "A smart, balanced analysis of the internal developments that have shaped Russia’s course since the break-up of the Soviet Union.” Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Dean Kotlowski joins the Nixon Foundation on this special Black History Month edition of the Nixon Now Podcast to talk about President Nixon's history with the African American community and his record on civil rights. Dr. Kotlowski is a professor of history at Salisbury University and is the author of an influential book on the subject called "Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy." Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
A writer, intellect and polymath, William F. Buckley Jr. was founder and editor of National Review for decades and a contemporary of Richard Nixon.
Joining the Nixon Now Podcast to discuss the relationship between Buckley and Nixon is James Rosen, Chief Washington, D.C. correspondent for FOX News. Rosen is the editor and curator of a new book of Buckley's writing called "A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the 20th Century."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
The subject of the most recent addition to the Nixon Now podcast is a timely one. Since the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979, Iran and the United States have not had diplomatic relations. Despite recent agreements made in the realm of nuclear proliferation, the diplomatic climate between the United States and Iran has remained murky and has only moved slowly in the positive direction of rapprochement.
Joining the Nixon Now podcast to discuss the history of the U.S. relationship with Iran is historian and U.S.-Iranian expert Andrew Scott Cooper. Professor Cooper is a contributing columnist to Foreign Policy and the Guardian newspaper’s Tehran Bureau website. He is affiliated with Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy and is a member of the UK Energy Institute. He is also the author author of “The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran.”
Cooper spoke at the Nixon Library on September 19, 2016, to share his insight on the final days of one of the world’s most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
In 1972, President Nixon was elected by a 49-state landslide and nearly 50 million votes. He built a grand coalition, welcoming in traditional Democrats including ethnic and working-class voters.
Joining us on this week's Nixon Now Podcast is Michael Balzano. Balzano was a White House Staff Assistant from February 1972 through March 1973 where he worked under Charles Colson at the Office of Public Liaison. Balzano acted as a liaison between the Nixon administration and various segments of the population, including labor, Catholics, Poles, Slovaks, Italians, Greeks, Ukranians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and other Eastern European groups.
Balzano is also the author of "Building a New Majority," which provides candidates and the public the tools to better understand the complexities of the American workforce. Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Last week, the Nixon Foundation spoke with historian Jussi Hanhimaki on the subject of Detente with the Soviet Union during the presidency of Richard Nixon. We continue this discussion in Part II of this podcast episode.
The subject of this podcast is very relevant to today’s politics as the U.S and Russia are constantly at odds on the direction of world affairs. The discussion is about Great Power Detente — that is the policy of relaxation of tensions — in the 1970s between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Joining the discussion In this two part series is Jussi Hanhimaki, professor of history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is one of the founding editors of the journal “Cold War History, and in 2006 he was named Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland. He’s also the author of several books and publications, including “The Rise and Fall of Detente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
The subject of this week's podcast is very relevant to today’s politics as the U.S and Russia are constantly at odds on the direction of world affairs. The discussion is about Great Power Detente — that is the policy of relaxation of tensions — in the 1970s between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Joining the discussion In this two part series is Jussi Hanhimaki, professor of history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is one of the founding editors of the journal “Cold War History, and in 2006 he was named Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland. He’s also the author of several books and publications, including “The Rise and Fall of Detente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War.” Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
68 years ago, first-term Congressman Richard Nixon presided over the prosecution of Alger Hiss, a Harvard trained and high-ranking member of the Federal Government accused of Soviet espionage.
Joining the Nixon Now Podcast to discuss the case that brought Richard Nixon to the national political stage is biographer and historian Irv Gellman. Gellman, who has been featured on our podcast in the past, is a writer of several books, including two about Richard Nixon, “The Contender” which chronicles the future president’s years in Congress, and his latest book “The President and the Apprentice,” about RN’s years as vice president. Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
President Nixon came into office during rampant drug use in the United States, especially plaguing American cities. For example in 1960, there were over 200 narcotics related deaths in New York City. In 1970, that figure had risen to over a thousand.
To talk about Nixon's drug control policy is Michael Massing. Massing is the former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and is a frequent editor there and in other publications including the New York Review of books, The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.
He is the author of a definitive book on Nixon's drug policy called "The Fix: Under the Nixon Administration, America Had an Effective Drug Policy. WE SHOULD RESTORE IT. (Nixon Was Right)."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This month marks the 67th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The future of NATO has been the subject of media buzz lately, especially as GOP front runner Donald Trump has called the American-European defense alliance obsolete.
To discuss how President Nixon saw the future of NATO, America’s relationship with Europe, and what American leaders can learn from him is Texas A&M History Professor Luke Nichter.
Nichter is the co-author with Douglas Brinkley of the recent volume of bestsellers on the Nixon Tapes, and the recently released "Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Luke Nichter's books are available for purchase from the Richard Nixon Museum Store: https://store.nixonfoundation.org/search?q=luke+nichter
This week's podcast is about the Central Intelligence Agency in the Nixon administration. In August of this year, the CIA will be releasing all the daily briefings the agency disseminated during the Nixon and Ford administrations at a special event at the Nixon Presidential Library.
Here with us to discuss the presidential daily briefing during the Nixon years is David Priess, author of the newly released book "The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings from Kennedy to Obama."
Priess served in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations as an award-winning intelligence officer, manager and daily briefer at the CIA, as well as a desk officer at the State Department. He has his PhD from Duke University and is currently a director at Analytic Inc., offering specialized training, mentoring and consulting services to the intelligence community, other government offices and the private sector.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This week marks the 104th birthday of First Lady Pat Nixon. To discuss her life and legacy is Bob Bostock. Bostock served as special assistant to former President Nixon, leading the writing and curating of most of the exhibits at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. In 2012, he wrote and curated the special Centennial Exhibit about First Lady Pat Nixon, also at the Nixon Library.
Bostock has 15 years of experience in senior federal, state and local governments including work as a senior advisor to New Jersey Governor and later EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman. The two co-wrote the best-selling book "Its My Part Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America."
Bostock also has 15 years of senior federal, state and local governments including work as a senior advisor to New Jersey Governor and later EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman. The two cowrote the best-selling book "Its My Part Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
You can learn more about Pat Nixon's life in her biography, "Pat Nixon: The Untold Story," authored by daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower and available for purchase from the Richard Nixon Museum Store: https://store.nixonfoundation.org/products/pat-nixon-the-untold-story
Nixon's week that changed the world was a Cold War game-changer, establishing rapprochement between the U.S. and China after nearly a quarter century of non-communication.
Discussing the impact of the trip is Ambassador Richard Solomon. A specialist in Chinese politics, Ambassador Solomon joined the national security council staff under Dr. Henry Kissinger in 1971. In the Reagan administration, he became director of policy planning at the Department of State and was appointed assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and Ambassador of the Philippines by President George H.W. Bush.
From 1993 until his retirement in 2012, he served as President of the United States Institute of Peace. He is now a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
With the recent passing of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and the hotly contested debate over the future of the Supreme Court, we look at President Nixon's judicial philosophy and his actions to shape the nation's highest court. Nixon appointed four justices including the influential William Rehnquist, who served for more than 30 years on the bench.
To discuss this topic with the Nixon Foundation is Kevin McMahon, the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His books include "Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race" and his most recent "Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences." For this book he was awarded the Erwin N. Griswold Book Prize, and was given the opportunity to deliver a lecture at the Supreme Court of the United States.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This week marks the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of Operation Homecoming, when American POWs held captive in Vietnam finally returned to U.S. soil.
Joining us on the Nixon Now Podcast to discuss his captivity is retired Air Force Colonel Lee Ellis. Colonel Ellis was a prisoner for six years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton and for his service was awarded two Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Valor device, the Purple Heart, and POW Medal. He lectures on leadership, works as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and is the author of "Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton" and a forthcoming book "Engage with Honor."
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
This week the Nixon Now podcast hosted one of America’s principal experts on the Middle East, Ambassador Dennis Ross, for a discussion on President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's efforts to bring about peace in this volatile region of the world.
Ambassador Ross served as the lead envoy on Middle East Peace negotiations for the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the author of several books including his latest, “Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama.”
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended U.S. combat operations in Indochina. Joining us to discuss this topic is Bruce Herschensohn, former director of Motion Picture and Television at the U.S. Information Agency and staff assistant to President Nixon. He's the author of "An American Amnesia: How U.S. Congress Forces the Surrenders of Vietnam and Cambodia" and is currently a senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights legacy left by President Dwight Eisenhower and then Vice President Richard Nixon was the subject of a special Nixon Now podcast with biographer and historian Irv Gellman. Dr. Gellman is a prodigious researcher and prolific writer of several books, including two about Richard Nixon, “The Contender” which chronicles the Nixon's years in Congress, and his latest book “The President and the Apprentice,” about RN’s years as vice president. Interview by Jonathan Movroydis
In the inaugural Nixon Now Podcast Interview, Nixon speech writer and advisor Pat Buchanan discusses the similarities between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon, and compares the 2016 and 1968 elections. Buchanan thinks that like Nixon, Trump has cross party appeal, and could not only maintain the conservative base but eclipse the GOP establishment.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Learn more about Pat Buchanan's time in Nixon's White House in his book, "Nixon's White House Wars," available from the Richard Nixon Museum Store: https://store.nixonfoundation.org/products/nixons-white-house-wars-the-battles-that-made-and-broke-a-president-and-divided-america-forever