Is Obama In 2010 Like Nixon In 1970?

This morning the Washington Post published a column stirring a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, as the hours tick by before the voters decide the elections that constitute the first major referendum on the Barack Obama presidency.  It was co-written by Douglas...

Doing The Time Warp Again (And Again)

Tomorrow, on Halloween, a few minutes after 6 am, on a major cable channel, the thirty-seventh president of the United States will intone the  passage of his August 8, 1974 speech to the nation that starts, “I am not a quitter. To leave office before my term is...

Video: William Voegeli on America’s Welfare State

Claremont McKenna, Henry Salvatori Center Visiting Scholar William Voegeli was at the Nixon Library on Thursday to discuss his new book, “Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State,” a close look at the current state of American dependence on...

10.28.1972 – RN’s ‘One America’ Radio Address

“Today,” President Nixon began, “there are some who say that that [American] spirit is dead – that we no longer have the strength of character, idealism, and faith we once had.” That was October 1972; this is October 2010. America was in the midst of a deciding...