Jan 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In November, TNN’s Frank Gannon wrote about the appearance in Tina Brown’s Daily Beast of an excerpt from The Pink Lady, the new biography by Sally Denton of Helen Gahagan Douglas, the actress-turned-Congressperson who was defeated by then-Rep. Richard...
Jan 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
From Westminster, Maryland, came the news on Wednesday that an electrical fire had occured at the farm of Whittaker Chambers, the onetime Communist and journalist whose testimony in 1948, and “pumpkin papers” evidence, led to the conviction of former State...
Jan 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This weekend on C-SPAN3, there will be two reruns of a 90-minute program taped in 1995, in which former New York Times reporter and columnist Tom Wicker discusses the thirty-seventh President. (Wicker’s 1991 book One Of Us is, along with William Safire’s...
Jan 5, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Saturday marks the 97th birthday of President Nixon, and the day before that is the momentous 75th anniversary of the day that Elvis Aron Presley (and, briefly, his twin brother Jesse Garon) entered this world. At the end of the year, four days before Christmas, will...
Dec 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday, Colonel Robert L. Howard, the most decorated American soldier living, passed away at the age of 70. He served five tours of duty in Vietnam and the extraordinary list of honors and unit citations he received in those years is itemized in his Wikipedia...
