Missing RN

Here’s the best —you can forget the rest — from Paul Krugman’s column in today’s New York Times: …it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s...

Memories Of 1969

The fortieth anniversary of “three days of peace, love and music” on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York, continues to be celebrated, most recently in movie theaters this weekend when Taking Woodstock, the new film by Cold Mountain and Incredible...

Nixon, Kennedy, and Cancer

From reading press accounts of Senator Kennedy’s legislative career, one might think that RN’s 1971 launch of the War on Cancer was simply a response to Kennedy’s initiatives.  Indeed, their political rivalry did play a role.  In politics, as in the...

The Lion And The Bear

When then President Bill Clinton spoke at former President Richard Nixon’s funeral, he suggested that the “day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close.” The speaker had no clue at the time how much he would need that...