Overview: 1969 to August 1974Under the Nixon administration, the Vietnam War officially came to a close. Though Nixon had secretly begun talks with the North Vietnamese during Johnson’s presidency, in 1969 the scope of U.S. involvement ex...
Overview: August 1974 to 1976Although Nixon had officially ended US military involvement, Vietnam continued to be an ongoing concern for the Ford Administration through the Fall of Saigon in April, 1975.The administration's efforts to avert the Commu...
We are finally catching up on blog posts for the libraries in the National Archives system. We've covered Roosevelt and Reagan. Now let's get to Nixon. This is a re-post of a Prologue article that ran in October 2015. October is American Archives Mon...
What follows is a repost from an October 2015 Prologue article written by Emily Niekraz. October is American Archives Month and so we thought we might re-run a few of these wonderful articles. Come and visit one of the Presidential libraries.At...
Isn't the toughest part of finding anything knowing where to look? The last few blog posts have been about the libraries--and we'll continue with that later--but it seems to me that if we are going to do a blog about records, let's talk records. How ...
Today is Thomas Jefferson's birthday! Of course there's some argument over the actual date (April 13 or April 2 etc.) but I'm sticking with what my handy, dandy wall calendar says and that is today. Jefferson was a founding father, our third presiden...
Keeping with the theme of firsts (see An Inaugural Blog). The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum was the first Presidential Library in the National Archives and Records Administration system. In fact, FDR's was the library that sta...
There's always a beginning. This is the first blog post in the Presidential Records records group of the History Hub. It is our hope that this blog can be used to highlight presidential records not only in the National Archives and Recor...
