Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
While the title of this essay might make one blanch; the concluding days of Watergate should be considered as one of Richard Nixon’s finest hours. Along with the successes of the opening to China, arms control with the Soviet Union, and all of his domestic...
Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat, that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever. Not true. It’s only a beginning — always. The...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There is a new addition to the national Pronunciation Wars. Nuclear (nuculer), Taliban (talleyban), and Pakistan (pockistan)* are now joined by Sotomayor. She says “Soto-my-or”; many say “Soto-may-or.” Among the many is Chief Justice John...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On July 29 of last year Vanity Fair’s website put up a portrait of President George W. Bush by that eminent visual satirist Drew Friedman. In it, the President was made up to look like that latterday icon of villainy, the late Heath Ledger in his Oscar-winning...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It is often said that you can judge a leader by the quality of the people with which he surrounds himself. Thirty-five years ago today, I came in brief contact with a member of President Nixon’s White House staff whose deep sense of humanity, even in the midst of what...
