Aug 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Tanned, rested, and ready for the 21st Century: John Quincy Adams photographed in 1843. The sixth POTUS —John Quincy Adams— has signed up —and not a moment too soon— on Twitter. He will be posting daily entries from his diaries. As Jeannie...
Aug 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last week I posted about Inherent Vice, the new novel by Thomas Pynchon set in Los Angeles during the spring and early summer of 1970 – that is, in the second year of the Nixon Administration. Today the book went on sale nationwide, and to promote it Penguin...
Aug 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Suggesting that conservatives such as Sarah Palin face political doom, a Daily Kos writer observes: When Richard Nixon won the presidency, the silent majority of Americans was white and conservative. The demographics of this country have changed, and that change is...
Aug 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Howard Fineman presents one of the better comparisons between RN and the departed Alaskan governor.