Sep 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In 1868, Benjamin Disraeli, upon achieving the office of British Prime Minister, at the age of 63 and thirty-one years after first winning election to the House of Commons, said: “I have reached the top of the greasy pole.” Disraeli was much admired by...
Sep 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I never thought I’d live to see the day when I would recommend one of Paul Krugman’s opinion columns in the New York Times as a “must see” for readers of The New Nixon. That day has come (actually, it came yesterday, but I was on deadline on a speech, so I’m a day...
Sep 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
World War II began seventy years ago today. After the initial German victories there would be some months of phony war before Europe really engaged; and it would take a couple of years before we entered; but today is when it began. W. H. Auden famously lamented the...
