Sep 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Joe Biden’s gaffes about coal and FDR have received a great deal of attention. The press has yet to focus on an equally ridiculous statement: “The first guy to support solar energy was me 26 years ago.” No, American political leaders were talking...
Sep 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This one is less about a factual error than an unwarranted inference. On page 602, Nixonland discusses RN’s speech to the nation on economic policy: “He then named the desperado they would slay together, with a hint of anti-Semitic code: ‘We must...
Aug 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonland (p. 521) notes that men on a movie crew were hostile to Jane Fonda “not merely for her anti-war stand but for her defiance of feminine convention: she had stopped wearing makeup. Wrote William F. Buckley: “She must never even look into the...
Aug 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In 1969, says Nixonland, the new president “was sworn in by Justice Black” (p. 357). No, it was Chief Justice Earl Warren. The book thus misses a delicious irony. Nixon and Warren had been at odds since their days in California politics. In 1968,...
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonland credits Nixon’s 1968 TV campaign to Gene Jones, who had made a fine war documentary without narration. “Nixon’s commercials would run without narration as well” (p. 333). No, an important ad did have narration. ...
