Mar 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Daily Princetonian published an article today about the imminent departure of Jim Kelly (a member of Princeton’s Class of ’76) as Time’s managing editor. In the course of reminiscing about his long career with the magazine, Kelly recounts this...
Mar 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Everett, Washington Herald today has an interview with RN’s brother Ed Nixon concerning his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait. In the article, Ed explains that it was partly thanks to his famed elder sibling that he developed an interest in the field in...
Mar 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The one truly embarrassing moment in President Obama’s sit-down with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show came when Jay asked the Chief Executive if he had followed through on his promise, often articulated on the campaign trail, to replace the bowling lane installed at...
Mar 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
David Greenberg, author of Nixon’s Shadow and history professor at Rutgers, has an essay up at the Wall Street Journal’s site comparing the expectations generated by President Obama’s first hundred days (or the first 60 or so that have gone by so...
Mar 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On August 2, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge had breakfast in the White House residence with his wife, Grace, and remarked to her “I have been president four years today.” It was one of those quick, concise, directly-to-the-point sentences she had been used to hearing...
