Nixon to China
He Re-Opened Relations. In 1972, President Nixon arrived in China and met with Chairman Moa Zedong. The Chinese Communist Party had controlled mainland China since […]
Foreign and Military Policy
The Lippmann Column
The Trial Balloon. Walter Lippmann, a widely read columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune and an accepted expert on many subjects, wrote this column below […]
Thirteen Days
JFK and Potential Disaster. On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval quarantine of Cuba. This came after the U.S. […]
National Security Council
The President’s Advisory Panel. The National Security Council is a congressionally-created group to advise the president on national security affairs. The National Security Act of […]
Authorization to Use Force
Waging War Without Declaring War. The Authorization to Use Military Force Act was passed shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Resolution […]