The First Lady
Posted In: News on April 5, 2012
Pat Nixon’s role as First Lady (April 5, 2012, National Archives, Washington, DC) Title: First Lady Pat Nixon, Ambassador of Goodwill Links: Nixon Library: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tN1KWG64PY&list=PLiF7JevUP8B9XIAdWZd5bfX7-jLKDyz7b&index=8 Nixon Foundation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtW-Cy50NBo C-Span: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/LadyPa […]
Read more >>Kissinger on Nixon’s Opening to China
Posted In: News on March 7, 2012
A day long program co-sponsored by the United States Institute for Peace and featuring Henry Kissinger as keynote speaker. (March 7, 2012) Title: The Week that Changed the World Links: […]
Read more >>Due Process and the Watergate Trials
Posted In: Watergate Audio/Visual on February 9, 2012
Shepard had been invited by students on the law review of Chapman Law School in Orange, California, to participate in their January 27, 2012 Symposium, entitled Watergate and the Rule […]
Read more >>The Peaceful Desegregation of Southern Schools
Posted In: News on February 1, 2012
How the Nixon Administration was able to bring about substantial school desegregate of Southern schools in the fall of 1971. (February 1, 2012, The Hoover Institution at Stanford University). Title: […]
Read more >>Ending the Draft: The Creation of an All-Volunteer Force
Posted In: News on January 19, 2012
Discussion exploring how Richard Nixon led efforts to reform and finally replace the draft with an All-Volunteer Force (January 19, 2012, Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, CA). Title: RN Ends the […]
Read more >>December, 2011: Four Key Cover-up Conversations
Posted In: Watergate Essays on December 23, 2011
The White House tapes are something like the Bible, if you will forgive the analogy: by focusing on any one segment, one can “prove” almost anything. But thoughts expressed in […]
Read more >>Labor and Employment Policy in the Nixon Administration
Posted In: News on December 5, 2011
Discussion of how Labor Secretary George Shultz transformed labor policy in the Nixon Administration. (December 5, 2011, National Archives, Washington, DC) Title: Labor and Employment Policy in the Nixon Administration […]
Read more >>Nixon’s Supreme Court Appointments, Part I
Posted In: News on November 17, 2011
The impact and legacy of Nixon’s Supreme Court appointments, especially the transition from the Earl Warren Court to the Bill Rehnquist Court. (November 17, 2011, National Archives, Washington, DC) Title: […]
Read more >>Confronting America’s First Energy Crisis
Posted In: News on October 19, 2011
President Nixon’s response to the oil embargo (October 19, 2011,Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC) Title: Confronting America’s First Energy Crisis Links: Nixon Library: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr1IsgaVuNY&list=PLiF7JevUP8B9XIAdWZd5bfX7-jLKDyz7b&index=15 Nixon Foundation: http://youtu.be/27U9K46pbm4 […]
Read more >>The New Federalism
Posted In: News on August 8, 2011
Discussion of the core innovation of President Nixon’s domestic initiatives, titled the New Federalism, which reprogramed federal grant money to states and localities (August 8, 2011 Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, […]
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