Jun 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Bernard Leon Barker, Cuban-born of American parents (and a citizen of both countries since the age of 18, though an exile from the land of his birth for a half-century), died in Miami yesterday at the age of 92. At the age of 24 in December 1941, Barker became the...
Jun 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Landing on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944: “What chiefly stays in the mind…is the dreadful moment of stepping out into the bullets. Planners anticipated that 20,000 would be killed or wounded in a single day, more than a quarter of all those going ashore....
Jun 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University Thursday. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...
Jun 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Former President Lyndon B. Johnson acknowledges that Richard Nixon, as a Republican President, has been able to accomplish some things that a Democratic President could not have… “‘Can’t you just see the uproar,’ he asked during a recent interview, ‘if I had been...
