RN Wishes Old Friends A Happy New Year

On 31 December 1971, RN was in the Lincoln Sitting Room working on the text of one of the most important —and still understudied— documents of his administration.  It was the strategic overview of his vision of foreign policy that would be sent to Congress...

The First Reader

It is hard to determine whether the number of books read by a President during his or her term, and which ones, have any real correlation to ability in leadership and governance.  Lyndon Johnson, famously, was reported never to have cracked open a book in his five...

Two Enlightened Dads

In The Politico, Andie Coller suggests that President-elect Obama’s rhetoric stems from his enlightened ideas about fatherhood: The “change we can believe in,” it turns out, shares a lot with the revolution in thinking about child-rearing sprung from the work of...

Please Hold For The President, Mr. Langella

An article about Frost/Nixon in yesterday’s Norfolk Virginian-Pilot features some lengthy quotes from Frank Langella. Among his ruminations: Langella acknowledges that Peter Morgan’s script, adapted from Morgan’s own play, is not historically...