A President’s Time

On the day he was inaugurated to his second term, President Nixon gave members of the White House staff a desk diary covering the four years of that term. Each day indicated how many days were remaining before his “Four More Years” came to a close. On the cover page...

Paul Krugman. Now More Than Ever?

I never thought I’d live to see the day when I would recommend one of Paul Krugman’s opinion columns in the New York Times as a “must see” for readers of The New Nixon. That day has come (actually, it came yesterday, but I was on deadline on a speech, so I’m a day...

A Memory Of 8/8/74

It is often said that you can judge a leader by the quality of the people with which he surrounds himself. Thirty-five years ago today, I came in brief contact with a member of President Nixon’s White House staff whose deep sense of humanity, even in the midst of what...

Et tu, Brute…

Shortly after becoming director of the Nixon Library in 2007, Dr. Timothy Naftali invited the nation’s press in to witness the removal of the Nixon Library’s Watergate exhibit. Declaring, “I can’t run a shrine,” he gleefully presided over the destruction of the...