November 1969 — Giving Thanks

A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 — their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 —their first year in the White House— the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any families from nineteen DC area old age homes to...

Forty Years Ago: Thanksgiving Proclaimed

Proclamation 3944 – Thanksgiving Day, 1969 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to “set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of...

This Thanksgiving, Please Pass The Brisket

(This article was written for The New Nixon last Thanksgiving. Recently, the editor of The Jewish Press, “America’s Largest Independent Jewish Weekly,” asked permission to use it in the print and on line editions of that paper in the days before...

Palin and Nixon

At Air America and The Huffington Post, Mark Green compares Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon.  He notes an obvious difference: RN “was vastly more experienced and sophisticated.”  He has a point, but one could make the same point about most other political...

Everybody Knows The Bird Is The Word

A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street.   (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, and a year later — on 12...