“Let Me Be (Imperfectly?) Clear”

No American presidency is complete without the emergence of one, or two, or more catchphrases as thoroughly associated with the incumbent as “Would you believe?” or “You really know how to hurt a guy” are with the late Don Adams. John F....

Nixon (Masks) In The News

Last week, as the Los Angeles Angels entered the American League playoffs, I wrote about the team’s first foray into the postseason thirty years ago, when former President Nixon was a regular at what was then Anaheim Stadium, and spectators were not allowed to...

“Seeing The Writing On The Wall”

Tony Panaccio at postchronicle.com has an article about Ed Nixon, the last of the five brothers that included the 37th President. and author of The Nixons: A Family Portrait. In the article Ed speaks of RN’s visionary health-care plan: “My brother’s...

Peter Morgan’s Follow-Up To Frost/Nixon

About nine months ago Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, with its acclaimed screenplay by Peter Morgan that later received an Oscar nomination, opened in theaters nationwide. This weekend sees the coast-to-coast release of Morgan’s next project – The Damned...

Is “Process, Effort And A Change Of Tone” Enough?

Aaron David Miller, a fellow of the Wilson Center in Washington and a Middle East negotiator in the administrations of four Chief Executives, writes about President Obama’s Nobel Prize for Peace at CNN.com: A young president, barely in the 10th month of his...