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A shortwave-radio scramble in Tokyo puts you beside the people awaiting Nixon's monetary speech.
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A sharp, vivid account of the Camp David decision that helped set a new monetary system in motion.
Jeffrey Garten's conversation with Frank Gannon frames the 1971 Camp David weekend as a secret meeting with consequences far beyond the room. Garten explains that he wrote Three Days at Camp David after noticing that no book had taken on the weekend directly, then follows the…
A clear, grounded look at how Nixon-era environmental protections reached daily life, from cleaner fuel to healthier wetlands.
The final installment of PlayNext's three-part Nixon Now series frames environmental policy as a set of everyday protections rather than a distant chapter of government action.
A clear, institution-focused look at how Nixon-era environmental policy turned scattered responsibility into bipartisan action.
This single-episode review frames Nixon-era environmental policy as a matter of political assembly: scattered federal responsibility, no clear lead agency, and an administration trying to turn public concern into durable law.
A focused look at how environmental alarm moved into Nixon-era policy.
Nixon's environmental record comes through as a compact story of public worry hardening into federal action. Allie Fitzgerald Smith and Bob Bostock trace a line from Carson's Silent Spring and DDT's damage to bald eagle eggs to the ecological disaster that followed Nixon's…
A season-long narrative reconstruction of the 2012 Benghazi attack and its political fallout.
Politics after the headline breaks open.
Frank Gannon talks with Jeffrey Garten about Three Days at Camp David, a 460-page account of the August 1971 weekend when Nixon moved the dollar off gold.
Allie Fitzgerald-Smith hosts Nixon Now from the Charlie and Ling Jung studio at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, with Bob Bostock, the author of The President and the Planet, closing a three-part series on Nixon's environmental legacy.
Bob Bostock says pre-Nixon environmental protection was split across at least six federal departments and agencies, none of which had it as their main mission.
Nixon Now Podcast opens with Richard Nixon's 1970 State of the Union line about whether Americans would "make peace with nature" and the claim that he created the EPA a few months later.
The Nixon Now Podcast examines Pat Nixon’s White House service and relationships with Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, and Jackie Kennedy.
A historical discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, examining President Nixon's Cambodian incursion and the resulting anti-war protests.
Hugh Hewitt interviews James Rosen about John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General, and his role in Watergate.
An interview with Martin B.
An interview with John Price about President Nixon's health care strategy and the history of employer-sponsored insurance.