One Who Has “Dared Greatly”

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives...

Historians Seek 1975’s Grand Jury Testimony

For eleven hours on June 23 and 24, 1975, President Nixon, ten months past his resignation and living in San Clemente, appeared before two members of a Federal grand jury and staff prosecutors of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and, under oath, answered...

President Nixon’s Bestsellers

As I write, the lead news story at Yahoo concerns one of the most keenly anticipated new books of the fall – George W. Bush’s Decision Points, scheduled for November publication by Crown. This AP article, by Douglass K. Daniel, discusses the expectations...

Nixon, Lincoln, Et Al Before the High Court

The other day I came across a column in the Oklahoma City Journal-Record by Tom Wolfe – not The Right Stuff’s author, but a civil litigator practicing in that metropolis.  Mr. Wolfe’s column, occasioned by the recent swearing-in of Justice Elena...

James J. Kilpatrick, 1920-2010

Yesterday, James Jackson Kilpatrick, whose journalistic career spanned nearly seven decades from 1941 until his final columns last year, died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, of congestive heart failure. He was ten weeks short of his ninetieth...