Over in the “showbiz” area of CNN’s site, Todd Leopold interviews Rick Perlstein about Nixonland, and some of the TV programming of the era is discussed in the context of the historian’s America-in-conflict thesis, such as the Smothers Brothers variety show, All In The Family, Bob Hope’s specials, and Laugh-In (which, Leopold notes, included “an old Nixon hand,” the late Paul Keyes, on its writing staff).