Dec 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
From RN: In December 1941, thanks to the recommendations of one of y professors from Duke, David Cavers, I was offered a job with the Office of Price Administration in Washington. The pay was only $3,200 a year, not nearly as much as Pat and I were making together...
Dec 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
When reports began to circulate a few weeks ago that President-elect Obama was likely to name Sen. Hillary Clinton to run the State Department, there was much discussion about who would be named by New York Gov. David Paterson to replace her. The state’s...
Dec 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s Washington Times Douglas MacKinnon, who served in the White House under Reagan and the first George Bush, and also at the Pentagon, discusses Chris Wallace’s challenge to the panel at the Frost/Nixon preview in Washington earlier this week. He...
Dec 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
he New York Times today reviews Frost/Nixon. I think it’s fair to say that Manohla Dargas, the paper’s chief film critic, is not unadmiring; but she is decidedly less impressed, than many other reviewers: Stories of lost crowns lend themselves to drama,...
Dec 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last night, Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard appeared on The Daily Show for the customary six-and-a-half-minute interview. He spoke about how nearly everyone he met when he was researching the film felt obliged to do a really awful Nixon impression, and, to illustrate...
