The Long Reach of Richard Nixon:
The Last Liberal Republican and his Social Policy
Join us for a talk by John Roy Price, former senior domestic policy advisor to President Richard Nixon and the author of The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider’s Perspective on Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy (2021). Based on his time in the White House, Price offers firsthand insight and rich detail on the extent to which Nixon and his staff straddled a precarious balance between a Democratic-controlled Congress and an increasingly powerful conservative tide in Republican politics.
Learn more about The Last Liberal Republican by John Roy Price from University Press of Kansas.
About the Speaker
John Roy Price was educated at Grinnell College, then at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After Harvard Law School he practiced law in New York, then worked in the presidential campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon. On Nixon's White House staff he was Special Assistant to the President, and Executive Secretary of the Council on Urban Affairs, and the Rural Affairs Council, both of which the president chaired. He was centrally involved in Nixon's social policy development, including welfare reform, hunger, and health insurance.
He went on to a forty year career in finance and banking, concluding as President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh.
About the Un-Presidented Speaker Series
The Un-Presidented Speaker Series highlights conversations with historians and experts of the Nixon era, and is presented by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in conjunction with the exhibition Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America now on view in the Lou Henry Hoover gallery of Hoover Tower at Stanford University.
