Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
Episodes
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#5646: Who Wakes the Prime Minister?The nuclear football, the duty clerk, the biscuit in the dry cleaning — how leaders stay reachable 24/7, and what that means for October 7th. -
#5508: Life After the Oval Office: Orange Juice and SecurityCarter went home to Plains, Bush took up painting, Obama stayed on stage — but all three kept the detail. Can a former president ever just buy oran... -
#5298: The Mountain, the Message: Nuclear Tests as DiplomacyNine states. Two thousand detonations. Why a nuclear test is often a sentence in a conversation, not a lab result. -
#5714: The Moon's Junkyard Has a Gift Shop150 tons of stuff sits on the Moon. Two objects on one square meter tell opposite stories: a $5.50 nylon flag and a silicon disc built for millennia. -
#5577: When the UN Goes Viral: Pitchers, Shoes, and 6-Second ClipsA six-second clip of a man drinking from a pitcher resurfaces as if it's new — inside the long history of the UN's most meme-able moments. -
#5242: Two Neighbors, Two Invasion PlansCanada drew up a plan to invade the U.S. in 1921. The friendly-neighbor story is only 80 years old.