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 profe...
Sep 30, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Presiden...
Sep 26, 2019•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 c...
Sep 08, 2019•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/po...
Sep 03, 2019•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Aug 27, 2019•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/podca...
Aug 20, 2019•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Aug 19, 2019•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 2...
Aug 08, 2019•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 m...
Jul 31, 2019•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 att...
Jul 23, 2019•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Mov...
Jul 15, 2019•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jul 09, 2019•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Schoo...
Jun 29, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 M...
Jun 25, 2019•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Jonatha...
Jun 20, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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-behi...
Jun 10, 2019•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/podca...
Jun 03, 2019•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/ Interv...
May 27, 2019•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, a...
May 20, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: ht...
May 06, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/Associat...
Apr 29, 2019•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Remembering a Statesman: President Nixon's State Funeral 25 Years Later by Richard Nixon Foundation
Apr 26, 2019•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 bus...
Apr 24, 2019•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 (Hen...
Apr 16, 2019•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 08, 2019•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 J...
Mar 25, 2019•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Mar 20, 2019•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: Ric...
Mar 13, 2019•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Congression...
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