Mar 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Claude Brinegar, the second of RN’s two Secretaries of Transportation, died yesterday in a nursing home in Palo Alto, California. He was 82. The LA Times published a comprehensive obituary: Claude Brinegar, who as U.S. transportation secretary led an overhaul of...
Mar 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Mar 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ron Silver died in his sleep on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 62. When I was named editor of Saturday Review in 1984, one of my first tasks was to liven up that distinguished by moribund institution. In my search for interesting and unusual reviewers and...
Mar 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jon Stewart got a lot of attention last week because of his memorable face off with Jim Cramer. But he also took an amusing look at some of the gee whiz aspects of the President’s schedule (and there do seem to be a lot of them).
Mar 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
(“L’Amerique Septentrionale Divisee En Ses Principales Parties …” This map of North America, from Pierre Mortier’s Atlas Nouveau, was printed in either Amsterdam or Paris in 1692. It depicts California as an island and and represents...
