Feb 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In 1968, February 2nd was a Friday — the day, forty-one years ago, on which RN officially declared his candidacy for POTUS. In RN, he wrote: “I began my second campaign for the presidency with a press conference on the afternoon of February 2, 1968, in...
Jan 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The former presidents traveling road show of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton pulled into New Orleans yesterday for a gig with the National Automobile Dealers Association. Everybody knows that you’re supposed to open a speech with a joke, but who knew that Mr....
Jan 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Caroline Kennedy’s maladroit Senate bid has finally ground to a halt with the anticipated noontime appointment of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to Secretary Clinton’s coveted seat. The choice added insult to injury for the Camolites: not only isn’t it...
Jan 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A lot is being made, and justifiably so, out of a number of previous Inaugural Addresses. Just the other night, all the Obamas read, on the north wall of the temple in which the 16th President’s memory is enshrined forever, the model to which the President...
Jan 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I took two walks earlier today. Despite the dire warnings of the media about the ghastly human gridlock that was (and probably will be tomorrow) inevitable, I braved the Metro system, and wandered around the Mall and the White House precincts for about an hour this...
