Been There Done That

From Confrontation to Negotiation: RN with Nikita Khrushchev in the famous Kitchen Debate in Moscow in 1959, and with Leonid Brezhnev (who had been part of Khrushchev’s official entourage in the Kitchen) on the Truman Balcony at the White House in 1973. In a few...

Palin, Nixon, And The “Secret Plan”

At CQ Politics, Jonathan Allen contrasts Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon.  “Palin doesn’t have Nixon’s interest in, or knowledge of, foreign affairs,” he writes. “Imagine the reaction if Palin suggested she had a “secret plan”...

37’s 4ths

The Philippine Republic and the USA share July Fourth as their Independence Day.  On 4 July 1956, Vice President and Mrs. Nixon joined President Ramon Magsaysay  and First Lady Luz Magsaysay in Manila to celebrate the Philippines’ 10th and America’s 180th...

The Star Spangled Batter

Washington National Symphony violinist Glenn Donnellan wanted to make the orchestra’s concerts for young people more engaging.  So, naturally, he decided to make a violin out of a Louisville Slugger. As Anne Midgette reports in today’s WaPo: Donnellan made...