Mar 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As President Obama travels to Europe to confer with leaders there about how to come to grips with the worldwide recession, Kate Pickert, at Time.com, compares the trip to earlier Presidential travels overseas. Ms. Pickert is a native of Watertown, New York, and...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
RN greeted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his arrival at Washington’s National Airport in June 1954. The PM might have been thinking “This is a very impressive young man.” Or, as we now know, he might have been thinking:...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Composer Maurice Jarre conducted a suite from his Oscar-winning score for Doctor Zhivago at a 1992 tribute to the film’s director David Lean. Composer and conductor Maurice Jarre died of cancer in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 84. Born in Lyon, he abandoned...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night Stacy Keach completed his run as RN in Frost/Nixon at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre, triumphantly fighting back, in the best Nixonian tradition, to retake the stage after being hospitalized for a week by a mild stroke. Tomorrow through Sunday, he appears with...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Back in the day it was a truism that you knew an issue or a subject had reached critical mass (and that you were really in trouble) when it started turning up in Johnny Carson’s monolog. This was certainly the case with Watergate. Jay Leno, in his wildest...
