Nixon, Kennedy, and Cancer

From reading press accounts of Senator Kennedy’s legislative career, one might think that RN’s 1971 launch of the War on Cancer was simply a response to Kennedy’s initiatives.  Indeed, their political rivalry did play a role.  In politics, as in the...

Nixon, Cancer, and Serious Medicine

President Nixon launched the War on Cancer, which he considered a key initiative of his presidency.  When Frank Gannon asked him if he had enjoyed more victories than defeats, he said:  “That will depend on what happens. If, for example, there’s a...

Nixon’s America, Palin’s America

Suggesting that conservatives such as Sarah Palin face political doom, a Daily Kos writer observes: When Richard Nixon won the presidency, the silent majority of Americans was white and conservative. The demographics of this country have changed, and that change is...

Palin, Nixon, Power, And The GOP

In the Times of London, Daniel Finkelstein writes: There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give...