Nixon’s Advice On How To Deal With Libya

It has been very clear, since the end of February, that the crisis in Libya is becoming an event that, without decisive handling by the world’s major powers, could endanger not only the global economy’s halting steps to recovery from the 2007-2009...

Richard Nixon’s New Year’s Resolutions

As the hours count down and we get ready to face 2011, the inevitable question arises of what our New Year’s resolutions should be – or if we should make any.  I have found, over a few decades, that just saying resolutions aloud never gets them to stick in...

David And Julie Eisenhower on “The Colbert Report”

Last night David and Julie Eisenhower went on Stephen Colbert’s show to talk about their new book Going Home To Glory: A Memoir Of Life With Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969.  Their conversation can be seen here.  As is usually the case with Colbert’s talks...

James T. Lynn, 1927-2010

James Thomas Lynn, who succeeded George W. Romney as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Richard Nixon administration, and who continued in that post under Gerald R. Ford, died in Maryland on Monday at the age of 83.  With his passing, seven of the...