Nov 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
During his second term, RN made expanding health coverage to all Americans a centerpiece of his domestic agenda. “If the Government pays all the medical bills, then only the Government has a stake in holding down medical costs. This means that Government officials...
Nov 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Beauty in the Beast: The Daily Beast’s choice of illustrations hints at the hatchet job that follows in the excerpt from Sally Denton’s new book about the 1950 California Senate Race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. The Daily Beast is...
Nov 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
George Will’s latest column in Newsweek discusses President Obama’s much-disputed claim, during his just-concluded trip to Asia, that he is America’s “first Pacific President” because he was born in Hawaii and raised there and in...
Nov 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last Saturday, Herbert J. Miller Jr., known as “Jack” to his friends and colleagues, died at age 85 in Rockville, Maryland. Miller, a native of Minnesota, came to Washington after service in WWII, graduated from George Washington University’s law...
Nov 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Some weeks ago I wrote here about W. Kendall Myers, the State Department employee who, for nearly thirty years, spied for Cuban intelligence in this country, all the while appearing to his friends and neighbors (the latter including some retired “spooks”)...
