Sep 15, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
The National Book Festival, introduced by former First Lady Laura Bush, sponsored by the Library of Congress, and held since 2001 every September on the National Mall, has long been established as one of the country’s premiere events for authors to meet...
Sep 15, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Today, exactly three weeks after his death, the cremated remains of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, were laid to rest somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean by his family and the crewmen of the USS Philippine Sea. Given Mr. Armstrong’s dislike...
Aug 31, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
At the beginning of this month, in the lists of celebrity birthdays online and in the newspaper, one would see that on the fifth, “astronaut Neil Armstrong is 82” – just as he had turned 81 the year before that, and so on, going back to 1969 when his...
Aug 12, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
On August 3, Paul W. McCracken died at the age of 96 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, his home since he began working as a professor of economics at the University of Michigan from the end of the 1940s until his retirement in 1986. His impressive career there was accompanied...
Aug 3, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
It’s rare for political campaigns to be notable for clothing beyond the customary baseball-style cap and T-shirt. It’s unheard-of for them to be associated with eccentric fashion trends. But in 1968 there was a notable exception. And it did not originate...
