Jan 29, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
David Frye has passed away at the age of 77. He did a variety of impressions, and the New York Times obituary explains his most famous: It was Nixon, however, who kept Mr. Frye a regular on the top television variety shows and at the big Las Vegas casinos, perhaps...
Jan 27, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
“We will move forward together, or not at all,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address. Readers of this blog may have noticed that this line echoed one from RN’s 1969 inaugural: “To go forward at all is to go forward...
Jan 22, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In a tribute to Sargent Shriver, his father-in-law who just passed away, Arnold Schwarzengger recalls their first meeting: Sarge was a political man, so around the dinner table when the conversation turned to politics, I was ready to participate. With passion and...
Jan 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Washington Post, Mark Feldstein tells how the 1960 Kennedy campaign did opposition research on RN’s links to Howard Hughes. How did JFK’s campaign obtain this incriminating evidence? By paying the contemporary equivalent of $100,000 to a Los Angeles...
Dec 21, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On this day in 1970 , RN met Elvis. Okay, that’s not the most substantive historical observation that one could make today. The Orange County Register offers some very good advice about history: Beware of anachronisms. An anachronism in its broadest terms is...
