Aram Bakshian On “Going Home To Glory”

David and Julie Eisenhower’s book about the last years of his grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory, continues to receive highly positive reviews.  The most recent is in this morning’s Washington Times, by Aram Bakshian Jr., speechwriter to...

Charles McDowell’s Column On RN’s Resignation

Earlier this month Charles McDowell, who was on the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1949 until 1998, died at the age of 84.  For most of his career McDowell was the paper’s Washington correspondent, and for 44 of those years he also produced a...

Is Obama In 2010 Like Nixon In 1970?

This morning the Washington Post published a column stirring a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, as the hours tick by before the voters decide the elections that constitute the first major referendum on the Barack Obama presidency.  It was co-written by Douglas...

Doing The Time Warp Again (And Again)

Tomorrow, on Halloween, a few minutes after 6 am, on a major cable channel, the thirty-seventh president of the United States will intone the  passage of his August 8, 1974 speech to the nation that starts, “I am not a quitter. To leave office before my term is...

Another View Of The Ellsberg Documentary

The Most Dangerous Man In America, last year’s rather one-sided documentary feature about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, has gotten hosannahs from all the expected places, as well as an Oscar nomination.  Last night the film had its television premiere...