Aug 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Barone looks at today’s headlines —an Olympics in Beijing, an invasion in Georgia, a speech in Berlin—and is reminded of 1936 and 1948 and 1963 and 1989. His excellent column —“Echoes of Berlin”— draws parallels...
Aug 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In addition to raising some goosebumps, Kobe Bryant’s interview with Chris Collinsworth during Friday night’s Olympics coverage has also raised some hackles. Collinsworth: Where does the patriotism come from inside of you? Historically, what is it? Kobe:...
Aug 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In yesterday’s Jerusalem Post, Yehuda Avnner recalled some vivid observation of a testy conversation duringthe fall of 1970 between his boss, Prime Minister Golda Meir, and opposition leader Menachem Begin. After making a heated speech on the floor of the...
Aug 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
There’s an interesting article by Adrian Higgins in today’s Washington Post about the plans to restore the house and grounds of Steepletop — Edna St. Vincent Millay’s home in upstate New York.At least part of the first step toward raising the...
Aug 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonland (p. 521) notes that men on a movie crew were hostile to Jane Fonda “not merely for her anti-war stand but for her defiance of feminine convention: she had stopped wearing makeup. Wrote William F. Buckley: “She must never even look into the...
Aug 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As a rule of thumb, and making allowances for certain exceptions, having the National Enquirer on their case isn’t something you would wish on even your worst enemy. Which means that the always well-informed and often right Cindy Adams has some very bad news for...
