May 29, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At the Christian Science Monitor, Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term “news conference” as an alternative to “press conference.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed’s first-ever official press conference...
May 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At The New York Times “Caucus” blog, Matt Bai compares Newt Gingrich to RN: [I]f Mr. Gingrich is looking for hopeful historical comparisons, the more apt one might be Richard Nixon. Unlike Mr. Reagan, who even in his lower moments retained a certain...
Apr 3, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Representative Darrell Issa, chair of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, has suggested that the Obama adminstration is too “Nixonian” in its approach to government transparency. But when it comes to foreign policy, says Mr. Issa, it is not...
Mar 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan’s shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN’s direction. He...
