Aug 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
60 Minutes devoted its entire hour on Sunday to its progenitor and long-time executive producer Don Hewitt, who died a week ago today. In typical 60 Minutes style, the program was informative, provocative, and entertaining. Hewitt always said that his editorial...
Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon launched the War on Cancer, which he considered a key initiative of his presidency. When Frank Gannon asked him if he had enjoyed more victories than defeats, he said: “That will depend on what happens. If, for example, there’s a...
Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From a profile of uber lobbyist Heather Podesta (“the Insider’s Insider”) by Manuel Roig-Franzia in today’s WaPo: In a glum economy, the lobbying business feels kind of bubbly. Every new Obama proposal comes with acres of fine print for...
Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I’m always hesitant to speculate on What Would Nixon Have Done? — partly because who really knows, and partly because such speculation too easily becomes an exercise in what the speculator wants done. But I can, unreservedly and without any hesitation or...
Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Leave it to a German academic —Helga Kotthoff of the Frieburg University of Education— to conduct research establishing that, as a headline in the Telegraph puts it, “Humor is an act of aggression.” (Which, as headlines go, is in the category...
