Jun 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Within a forty-eight-hour period the world lost three figures in the world of entertainment. Farrah Fawcett, in the days when she had Majors appended to her name, was the nation’s most popular sex symbol a year or so after Richard Nixon left the White House. Ed...
Jun 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Landon Donovan and US teammates celebrate the “stunning” 2-0 victory over Spain in Blomfontein. (AP photo by Antonio Calanni) George Vecsey reports for The New York Times: The stunning 2-0 victory by the United States over Spain —the best team in...
Jun 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At www.nixontapes.org, Luke Nichter of Tarleton State University (who was extensively quoted in the AP article Frank Gannon discusses below) takes a look at John Dean’s appearance at the Nixon Presidential Library last week. (This post also appears at History...
Jun 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Nixon Library has just released some 30,000 pages of new presidential records and 150 new tapes from January and February 1973. Among the many subjects covered are the end of the war in Vietnam. The New York Times, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times all turned...
Jun 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
When you get in these people when you…get these people in, say: “Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that” ah, without going into the details… don’t, don’t...
