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	<title>The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his Times, and his Legacy</title>
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		<title>The New Nixon Has Moved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please check us out at our new place at:
BLOG.NIXONFOUNDATION.ORG
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		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/06/07/the-new-nixon-has-moved/</link>
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		<title>WWND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey Governor Chris Christie answers a question asked by Newark Star-Ledger reporter and editorial page editor Tom Moran at a press conference yesterday in Trenton:


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		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/14/wwnd-3/</link>
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		<title>Another President With &#8220;Game&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many articles about President Obama have suggested that he is the first President to display any considerable skill as a basketball player. (Herbert Hoover used to toss a six-pound medicine ball over a volleyball net, but Hooverball&#8217;s another game altogether.) 
But such may not be the case, as recounted in Alex Pappas&#8217;s article about President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/14/another-president-with-game/</link>
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		<title>Tom Shachtman Writes About Barack Obama (Sr.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been considerable discussion in TNN about The Forty Years&#8217; War, Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman&#8217;s book about foreign policy in the Nixon, Reagan, and both Bush eras. But it was not the only book Tom Shachtman published last year. St. Martin&#8217;s Press also published his Airlift To America, which tells the story of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/11/tom-shachtman-writes-about-barack-obama-sr/</link>
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		<title>70 Years Ago Today&#8211;May 10, 1940</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Nixon admired Winston Churchill and when he wrote his book about Leaders in 1982 he profiled Churchill first.  

Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 65 on this date in 1940.  May 10, 1940 was a moment of dynamism militarily and politically as Hitler’s forces swept across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/10/70-years-ago-today-may-10-1940/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Stay Free&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alaska Lt. Governor candidate and Chair of the U.S. Arctic Commission Mead Treadwell on Walter Hickel:
Gov. Wally Hickel, who invited me in to his world when I was a high school grad visiting Alaska in 1974, and in the 36 years I worked with him, here in Alaska and around the world, helped me learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/10/stay-free/</link>
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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day From The Nixon Foundation</title>
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Courtesy of Foreign Policy Magazine photo feature &#8220;Leaders and their moms:&#8221; Senator Nixon with mother Hannah Nixon at her home in 1951.
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		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-from-the-nixon-foundation/</link>
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		<title>Hickel Was One Of A Kind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wally Hickel was one of a kind.  When President Nixon appointed him Secretary of the Interior, he asked me to help Wally get his office organized.  Secretary Hickel became my first boss in the Nixon Administration and my life long friend.
When Frank Sinatra sings, &#8220;I did it my way,&#8221; he is talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/08/statement-by-nixon-foundation-president-on-the-passing-of-walter-hickel/</link>
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		<title>Oil Spills And Federal Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walter Hickel&#8217;s death comes at a time when the nation is focused on the causes and consequences of offshore oil spills.  As the newly-minted Secretary of the Interior &#8212;literally newly-minted, having only been confirmed six days earlier&#8212; Wally Hickel had to deal with one of the worst such disasters.
On the afternoon of 29 January 1969, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/08/oil-spills-and-federal-leadership/</link>
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		<title>New York Times Obituary of Walter Hickel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has just put up a lengthy obituary of Walter J. Hickel, two-time Alaskan Governor and President Nixon&#8217;s first Secretary of the Interior who died last night in Anchorage.
With Governor Hickel&#8217;s passing, George P. Shultz (Secretary of Labor, 1969-1970) and Melvin R. Laird (Secretary of Defense, 1969-1973) are now the last living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/08/new-york-times-obituary-of-wally-hickel/</link>
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		<title>Walter J. Hickel&#160;&#160;&#160;1919-2010</title>
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&#8220;The conservationists cheered me when we fought against pollution or when we preserved park lands; they attacked me when we advanced the Alaska Pipeline and the North America energy grid. My friends and associates in business were equally perplexed. I was not their guy. I was not anyone&#8217;s guy.&#8221;
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		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/08/walter-j-hickel-jr-1919-2010/</link>
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		<title>RN&#8217;s Conservationist</title>
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December 11, 1968: RN announces his appointment of Alaska Governor Walter Hickel as Secretary of the Interior.
Former Alaska Governor and RN Interior Secretary Walter Hickel died today. He was 90.
Hickel was a trail blazer for President Nixon&#8217;s environmental agenda early on, leading the cleanup after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil rig explosion and conservation efforts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/08/rns-conservationist/</link>
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		<title>Camelot And Sacred Cow&#8211;Tipping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever his obvious faults and flaws, it is somewhat understandable that Richard Nixon would ruminate about how Jack Kennedy got away with a lot during his assassination-shortened presidency.  And there is no doubt that the 37th President of the United States saw all of the “Camelot” hype as mythology born of cynical public relations. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/07/camelot-and-sacred-cow-tipping/</link>
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		<title>Kent State, 40 Years Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the fortieth anniversary of one of the Nixon era&#8217;s most tragic events, when four students were killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at the campus of Kent State University during an antiwar demonstration. The shootings were followed by a nationwide student strike, and thousands of students descending on Washington to protest. (It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/04/kent-state-40-years-later/</link>
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		<title>Unanswered Questions About Kent State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 40th anniversary of the Kent State protests, Fox News&#8217; James Rosen has a new article in the Washington Times in which he reveals declassified FBI files that suggest the National Guardsman were shot at first:
Now largely forgotten, the torching of the ROTC building was the true   precursor to the killings at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/04/unanswered-questions-about-kent-state/</link>
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		<title>A Historian&#8217;s Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the New Yorker came out with allegations that Stephen Ambrose (famed WWII and Nixon Biographer) exaggerated his contact with Dwight Eisenhower, General of the Army and 34th President of the United States.  {See: Raymer, Richard, “Channeling Ike,” The New Yorker, April 26, 2010.}
The late Dr. Ambrose {1936-2002} was the author of some 25 books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/04/a-historians-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye To All That</title>
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The Supreme Court announced this morning that visitors will no longer access the building by ascending the 44 marble steps steps and passing under the words &#8220;Equal Justice Under Law&#8221; to enter the great central hall through the massive bronze doors depicting the history of the development of justice and law in the western world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/03/goodbye-to-all-that-3/</link>
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		<title>What Would Buckley Think About The Tea Party?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation, author of the standard biography of Barry Goldwater (and of a new book about William F. Buckley Jr.) argues that Buckley would have endorsed it:
Some of you may be saying, &#8220;But wait, wasn&#8217;t Bill Buckley an elitist, the ultimate patrician, the man with a New York City maisonette and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/01/what-would-buckley-think-about-the-tea-party-movement/</link>
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		<title>President Nixon And Arbor Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that Arbor Day, as it was when I was a child, is a holiday most familiar in the elementary schools of America, since it does not involve grownups getting the day off from work, except in Nebraska (not a state famous for its orchards and forests). On a (hopefully) sunny day at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/01/president-nixon-and-arbor-day/</link>
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		<title>The Gulf Oil Disaster And Memories of 1969</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I observed recently at TNN, it was a large oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, about a week after Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 1969, that focused the nation&#8217;s attention on pollution and ecology in a dramatic fashion, and helped spur the movement that led to the first Earth Day and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenewnixon.org/2010/05/01/the-gulf-oil-disaster-and-memories-of-1969/</link>
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