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Today is Thomas Jefferson's birthday, so we're sharing one of our favorite moments of Nixon talking about Jefferson: “From among his many achievements Thomas Jefferson toward the close of his life personally selected two he wanted most to be remembered by. He did not select his service as George Washington’s Secretary of State — not the monumental fact that he had doubled our nation’s area with the Louisiana Purchase — not even that he had served as the third President of the United States. No, he wanted to be remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence and founder of the University of Virginia. Jefferson knew that the destiny of America was inseparable from education — that in fulfillment of the promise of this new nation education would be the key.” Source: CBS Radio Network, Sunday, October 20, 1968

We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but failing into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.

How long do you have? The must read: — RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon The best biographies (yet written): — Nixon A Life (1992) — Being Nixon (2014) The best analysis (yet written): — The Nixon Effect — Nixon’s White House Wars — The President’s Man — The Year that Broke Politics — The Contender — The Nixon Conspiracy — With Nixon And for the full context: — Pat Nixon: The Untold Story

"Their extraordinary feat is a tribute to man's ingenuity, to his resourcefulness and to his courage." President Richard Nixon presented the highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, to the Apollo 13 mission operations team in Houston #OTD in 1970.

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Good catch by @willcain for referencing President Nixon’s Feb. 25, 1971 radio address. It's a reminder that frustrations with NATO aren’t new. Nixon was clear: allies "need to share the burden more fairly." @WillCainShow

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"President Truman’s paranoic opposition to our investigation of the Hiss case was hard to understand. No one could question the anti-Communist credentials of the President who asked Congress to approve aid to Greece and Turkey to halt Communist aggression in Europe. Yet even after the Pumpkin Papers so clearly demonstrated Hiss’s guilt, he continued to call the committee’s hearings a 'red herring' designed to divert attention from what he called the terrible record of the Republican 80th Congress. Privately, he was enraged at Hiss. When he was shown copies of the documents that Hiss had turned over to Chambers, he said over and over again, 'The son of a bitch, he betrayed his country. The son of a bitch, he betrayed his country.' Still, even after Hiss was indicted, Truman continued to take his 'red herring' line. When one of his aides later asked him about this, he replied, 'Of course Hiss is guilty. But that damn committee isn’t interested in that. All it cares about is politics. And as long as they try to make politics out of this communist issue, I am going to label their activities for what they are—a red herring.'" Richard Nixon. In The Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal

"The Hiss case involved the explosive issue of Communist influence in the government, particularly in the State Department. Many non-Communists violently objected to my role in exposing Alger Hiss because they considered our investigation to be an attack on the liberal foreign-policy establishment, even on an entire generation of idealistic public servants. I vividly recall a heated argument at a Washington dinner party when a prominent liberal Washington lawyer, Paul Porter, pounded the table and said, 'I don’t give a damn whether Hiss is guilty or not. The committee’s investigation is bad for the country, because the attack on Hiss is an attack on the Roosevelt foreign policy.' Proving that Hiss was guilty not only did not help to reduce that opposition, it compounded it. It meant that thereafter such investigations could not automatically be dismissed as McCarthyism. Ironically, I got hit from both sides. Bill Rogers tells the story of a conversation he had with a little old lady in tennis shoes at one of our whistle-stops in the 1952 campaign. She told him, 'I like Ike but I don’t like Nixon.' Rogers asked why. She replied, 'He was involved with that Hiss fellow.'" ➡️