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Richard Nixon

The Author’s Corner with Geoffrey Wawro

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 17, 2024

Geoffrey Wawro is University Distinguished Research Professor of History and Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. This interview is based on his new book, The Vietnam War: A Military History (Basic Books, 2024). JF: […]

Harris-Nixon 2024?

John H. Haas   |  August 20, 2024

What has Kamala Harris to do with Richard Nixon? Hint: it has to do with grocery prices.

How Wilt Chamberlain helped Richard Nixon win Black voters

John Fea   |  July 17, 2024

Here is Shaun Assael at Politico: Wilt Chamberlain, the biggest basketball star in the world, folded his long legs into the taxi and climbed beside Richard Nixon. It was April 9, 1968, and the two had just attended Martin Luther […]

What did Richard Nixon write in the margins of his books?

John Fea   |  September 20, 2023

Today The Atlantic is running a fascinating piece by Andrew Ferguson on researching Nixon’s marginalia. Here is a taste: Call it coincidence, serendipity, an aligning of the planets—whatever the term, the moment was creepy and amusing all at once. I […]

The Author’s Corner with Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 8, 2023

Kathryn Cramer Brownell is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. This interview is based on her new book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Princeton University Press, 2023). JF: What led […]

The Nixon Library has released another recording in which Billy Graham and Richard Nixon discuss Jews and the “Synagogue of Satan”

John Fea   |  October 27, 2022

Back in September we called your attention to a 1972 conversation between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon that was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” The conversation reveals Graham talking about Jews as part […]

Billy Graham to Richard Nixon: Satan was working through the Jews, but Hitler handled it all wrong

John Fea   |  September 11, 2022

The Graham-Nixon conversations were much worse than we originally thought. In late July 2018, the full conversation of a 1972 Billy Graham-Richard Nixon conversation was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” It was labeled […]

Why presidents can’t keep their documents

John Fea   |  August 15, 2022

There is a reason why the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last week. Here is a nice explainer from National Public Radio: For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them […]

Who will be the last Trump evangelical standing?

John Fea   |  June 29, 2022

Today, after watching another day of damning testimony before the House January 6th Committee, I was reminded again of this passage from Grant Wacker‘s biography of Billy Graham: The details of the low-level crime and high-level mendacity that led to […]