Henry Kissinger Speaks On China And The Mideast

This month, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, published his first new book in eight years, On China. (Its publisher, Simon & Schuster, has simultaneously reissued Dr....

Obama Puts The War Powers Resolution To The Test

Today marks a significant milestone in a contest between the executive and legislative branches of this nation’s government that began nearly four decades ago, for it looks as if President Obama will not be asking Congress to permission to continue...

A Great Photographer’s Favorite President

Harry Benson is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, in his eighties, who has for close to sixty years been one of the most skilled personality photographers on the planet.  He made his name in the ’50s with pictures of everyday life in his gritty native city and of...

Six Presidents In Search Of Mexican Cuisine

Today at the blog of OC Weekly, Gustavo Arellano writes about “Six Presidential Encounters With Mexican Food, Ranked From Best To Worst.”  Of the six Chief Executives discussed, Richard Nixon, as a native Californian, had the longest experience with...

“Duke Missed A Prize” In 1981

North Carolina, the “Tar Heel State,” is the birthplace of two Presidents, James Knox Polk and Andrew Johnson. (Andrew Jackson is recorded as having been born in South Carolina, near its northern border, but some historians still argue that the seventh...