Jan 23, 2010 | News, State of the Union, The New Nixon
The Washington Post has an article in which White House speechwriters, going back four decades, talk about the way in which Presidents have approached the annual State Of The Union address before Congress. In it, Lee Huebner of George Washington University’s...
Jan 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Over in the UK, the Guardian has a short article by David Bowie in which the onetime Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke describes some of the contents of his iPod. His selections, as is usually the case with him, are eclectic, ranging from current rock bands to...
Jan 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In case you haven’t heard, this just in—Americans are angry. In fact, many are mad as hell, and they apparently aren’t going to take “it” anymore. Whatever “it” is, it is certainly not good news for current elected officials, no matter what the party affiliation...
Jan 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Rose Mary Woods died five years ago today, on 22 January 2005. “Those who didn’t know her might think her life was all about a gap on a tape. How wrong they would be.” Rose Mary Woods at her desk in her office in the West Wing in 1974. She was born in...
Jan 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today —on 22 January 1970— RN delivered his first State of the Union Message to a Joint Session of Congress. The year before, the outgoing, diminished LBJ had delivered an elegiac, wistful SOTU describing what might have been and how he...
