Oct 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In 1961, President Kennedy started the Peace Corps from an ambitious idea and a Marshall redux of sorts, an all- American volunteer program with three simple goals: 1) to help people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, 2) to help...
Oct 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
White House renovator: First Lady Pat Nixon pictured with curator Clement Conger, daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower, designer David Richmond Byers III (left, from left to right), and architect Edward Vason Jones (right) in the Green Room in 1971. Much has been written...
Oct 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Saturday Night Live’s cold open did not go unnoticed on the Sunday morning talk shows — providing the basis of this week’s discussion about whether and/or how much the bloom is off the rose. Like Darrell Hammond with Bill Clinton and Will Ferrell...
Oct 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that founded the White House Fellows program. The Fellowships’s White House website describes the program’s origins: Declaring that “a genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society,”...
Oct 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Powers That Be: the President and Mrs. Obama with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley making their unsuccessful pitch for the ’16 Olympics. The Obamas’ journey to Copenhagen has produced a narrative more suited to Hans Christian Andersen than to David...
