Tag Archives: Richard Nixon
The Best Prophet of the Future is the Past: September 11 – 1970, 1981, and 2001
Today’s post is written by Chris Naylor, Director of the Textual Records Division. I recently opened a fortune cookie that contained a saying with special significance to me. This phrase, “The best prophet of the future is the past,” originally … Continue reading
From a researcher’s perspective
Today’s post is written by Aaron Mannes, a citizen researcher from the University of Maryland’s Laboratory of Computational Cultural Dynamics. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy who is writing a dissertation on … Continue reading
Uncle Walt, Papa, and The Prom Queen of Soul
What do Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway, and Whitney Houston have in common? They all served with the American Red Cross! Disney served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in France during World War I. Likewise, Hemingway served as an ambulance … Continue reading