Looking Forward

In today’s New York Times, Mark Leibovich offers up an interesting —and even relatively objective—  profile of Liz Cheney based on a speech she gave in Nashville earlier this month.  Perhaps if Mr. Leibovich read TNN more attentively, he...

William Safire RIP

The New York Times website is reporting that William Safire, longtime columnist for the newspaper, one of Richard Nixon’s two leading speechwriters (with Ray Price) during the President’s first term, and, in 1959, an eyewitness to the Kitchen Debate in...

9.26.60

Forty-nine years ago tonight —on Monday  26 September 1960— the first televised debate ever held between presidential candidates was broadcast coast-to-coast.   Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy faced off in the...