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Advancing President Nixon’s legacy of visionary leadership, geopolitical grand strategy, public service, and a more just society for all Americans.
Feb 12 7 tweets 2 min read
Here are the seven pages of President Nixon's grand jury testimony that @JamesRosenTV uncovers. (1/7) Image (2/7) Image
Aug 8, 2025 9 tweets 2 min read
51 years ago, President Nixon resigned.
Now? His legacy is getting a major reappraisal.

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Apr 3, 2025 13 tweets 2 min read
🧵 1/ Sen. @tedcruz just repeated the tired lie that “Nixon was a crook.”

That line collapses under the weight of facts.
Here’s a reality check for Sen. Cruz—and the rest of D.C.—needs to hear:👇 2/ Nixon entered office with the deck stacked against him.

He was the first president since 1849 to take office with both Houses of Congress controlled by the opposing party.

The permanent bureaucracy, media, and political elite were all aligned against him.
Dec 11, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
On the morning of December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley arrived at the White House—unannounced.

He had a handwritten letter for President Nixon, requesting a meeting. By that afternoon, the King was in the Oval Office.

Here's the letter that made it happen. ✍️ Image "Dear Mr. President.

First, I would like to introduce myself. I am Elvis Presley and admire you and have great respect for your office. I talked to Vice President Agnew in Palm Springs three weeks ago and expressed my concern for our country. The drug culture, the hippie elements, the SDS, Black Panthers, etc. do not consider me as their enemy or as they call it the establishment. I call it America and"Image
Aug 19, 2024 14 tweets 3 min read
History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties. 🧵🧵 Yet naive idealists persist in believing that summits, state dinners, windy toasts, tearful bearhugs and abrazos, and solemn signing ceremonies are the very essence of diplomacy.
Jul 9, 2024 11 tweets 2 min read
Mayor Johnson’s reference to President Nixon is gratuitous and the facts are not on his side in his characterization of Richard Nixon and the Nixon administration’s civil rights record.

Here are the facts: 🧵 In 1971, the Nixon administration developed a plan to carry out the 1954 SCOTUS decision in Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate all schools in the South. In 1969, 64% of Southern Schools were segregated. By 1974, 8% were segregated. Done effectively and peacefully.