Richard Nixon

The missiles that comprise the land component of America’s nuclear triad are scattered across thousands of square miles of prairie and farmland, mainly in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. About 150 of the roughly 400 Minuteman III…
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Call it coincidence, serendipity, an aligning of the planets—whatever the term, the moment was creepy and amusing all at once. I was beavering away in the basement research room at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba…
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President Joe Biden is running for reelection. But a lot of Democrats would rather vote for someone else.Sixty-seven percent of Democrats say they want a different candidate, according to a CNN poll released in September. That’s down from…
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Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old entrepreneur running for the Republican presidential nomination, has initiated a war against what he views as an outdated, establishment foreign policy. He is deeply skeptical of NATO. He wants to swiftly…
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The long-awaited federal indictment of Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election may be necessary to contain the threat to American democracy that he has unleashed. But it’s unlikely to be sufficient.The germ of election…
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger helped broker talks between then-U.S. President Richard Nixon and China's Mao Zedong, paving the way for normalized relations.Medianews Group/los Angeles Daily News Via Getty Images | Medianews…
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1/3 Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger made a surprised trip to China this week. File Photo Patrick D. McDermott/UPI | License Photo July 19 (UPI) -- Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of…
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Earlier this week, Donald Trump was arraigned in Miami on charges that he willfully retained documents containing some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets and obstructed justice when federal officials tried to retrieve them.Trump was…
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One hundred years ago, Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in Furth, Germany. This past week he made headlines throughout the world with his reflections on the shifting geopolitical realities of Central Europe.…
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In 2009, John Rogers, the creator of the crime drama Leverage, wrote a blog post describing how an episode of the show had come together. In it, he noted one of the things he’d learned from fans: They loved the moments when the show’s core…
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