Nixon
New Movie Releases of The Week: Our Nixon, Closed Circuit, One Direction: This Is Us
This week’s big movie releases include the all-archival documentary “Our Nixon,” which examines the Nixon presidency through the use of home movies filmed by Nixon aides. Also hitting the box office is “Closed Circuit,” the British crime thriller and “One Direction: This Is Us,” an intimate, all access look at the boy band One Direction […]
The End of an Era: Final Set of Nixon Tapes Released
On Wednesday, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum released the last set of secret recordings from the 37th president. The 340 hours of tape cover April 9th through July 12th, 1973–a period of some success and serious turmoil in the Nixon Administration, according to Luke Nichter, professor of history at Texas A&M University-Central Texas […]
Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
Most of us think of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the good guy general who coined terms like “the military industrial complex.” And Richard Nixon will forever go down in history as the man who said “I am not a crook” but who was, in fact, a crook. But long before Richard Nixon was president and […]
Nixon Grand Jury Transcripts Revealed
On August 8, 1974, then President Nixon bid adieu to the White House staff with the famous words, “Au revoir. You’ll see us again.” With a tacit acknowledgement of his role in the Watergate scandal that brought down members of his presidential staff, Richard Nixon resigned at noon the next morning. His resignation was a first time a […]