The Richard Nixon Experience

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The Old Man offered his wisdom to another generation. All should read Nixon's In the Arena - a cornucopia of RMN wisdom for the ages. x.com/nixonfoundatio…

@RHPalmerston3 @nixonfoundation His best book in my opinion

@nixonfoundation Yes, but this is a MUCH better book by RN.

Reject the self-help slop. Embrace the Great Man autobiography.

@nixonfoundation @nixonfoundation Such a great book. I also loved Leaders #Historian

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The Honorable Richard M. Nixon

The star of our sister podcast “Bob Dole: The Life that Brought him there” #BobDole #RandalWallace

Should an aircraft carrier be named after Richard Nixon?

President Richard Nixon's 1972 trip to China established the foundation upon which every successive American President has built, reshaped, expanded, contracted, and mended relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. What was the strategic context? -President Nixon's strategy, known as "triangular diplomacy," was designed to exploit a rift between China and the Soviet Union and reshape the global balance of power. -The United States was still engaged in the Vietnam War and nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union remained high. -China had been diplomatically isolated from the West since the communist revolution of 1949. There had been virtually no communication between the U.S. and China for more than 20 years. What were the key outcomes and legacy? Today's U.S.-China relationship, calibrated around strict national interests, rests on the architecture President Nixon constructed in 1972: -Demonstrated that pragmatic diplomacy could prevail over ideological hostility -Strengthened the American strategic position against the Soviet Union -Contributed to a broader period of détente and reduced superpower tensions -Paved the way for full U.S.-China diplomatic normalization in 1979 -China's gift of two giant pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

From Nixon's memoirs: One spoke up and said, 'I hope you realize that we are willing to die for what we believe in.' I said, I certainly realize that. Do you realize that many of us when we were your age were also willing to die for what we believed in and were willing to do so today? The point is that we were trying to build a world in which you will not have to die for what you believe in, in which you are able to live for it.

Deep truth here. The modern culture wars began with Chambers-Hiss. Nixon was instrumental in the Right’s first significant triumph and the he earned the everlasting enmity of the left.

Richard Nixon visits the Temple of Heaven in 1979.

For the mothers.

@nixonfoundation Nixon as VP met so many greats

I’ve done a lot of research at both the Hoover and Nixon Library, and I completely agree. Nixon’s vice presidential years are incredibly fascinating, and seriously under-discussed. So much of his later worldview, political instincts, and foreign policy thinking can already be seen in that period.

Richard Nixon's vice presidential years are not talked about enough.

"I said, I know that the great emphasis that is currently being put on the environment—the necessity to have clean air, clean water, clean streets—that, as you know, we have a very bold program going further than any has ever gone before to deal with some of these subjects. But I want to leave just one thought with you. Cleaning up the air and the water and the streets is not going to solve the deepest problems that concern us all. Those are material problems. They must be solved. They are terribly important. . . . But you must remember that something that is completely clean can also be completely sterile and without spirit. What we all must think about is why we are here—what are those elements of the spirit which really matter. And, here again, I returned to my theme of thinking about people rather than about places and about things. I said candidly and honestly that I didn’t have the answer, but I knew that young people today were searching, as I was searching forty years ago, for an answer to this problem. I just wanted to be sure that all of them realized that ending the war, and cleaning up the streets and the air and the water, was not going to solve spiritual hunger which all of us have and which, of course, has been the great mystery of life from the beginning of time. . . . By this time the dawn was upon us, the first rays of the sun began to show, and they began to climb up over the Washington Monument and I said I had to go, and shook hands with those nearest to me, and walked down the steps." (Continued)