Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This week I finished Rick Perlstein’s book Nixonland. My conclusions are not very much changed from what I previously posted, and as I mentioned previously Oxford historian Dominic Sandbrook’s review in the London Telegraph expresses an opinion of the book...
Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Savage recently attacked kids with autism. One of those kids is my son, and I replied to Savage in National Review Online. I was able to keep my composure by remembering what Nixon once said: “One can only be angry with those he...
Jul 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. displays a list of what are called Moscow Rules – commonly accepted guidelines for the good guys during the Cold War. Basically, they are based on a through-the-looking-glass approach to reality, where nothing is as it...
Jul 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the return to earth of the first two men to walk on the moon — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo XI crew. The day before yesterday, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a member of the Apollo XIV crew and the sixth man to...
Jul 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The day after welcoming the Apollo XI astronauts home from the moon, RN talked with some reporters during a stopover on the mid-Pacific island of Guam. The backstory and the reception of his very few words on that July afternoon have been the subject of speculation on...
Jul 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Our good friend Dick Allen, who served as RN’s foreign policy coordinator during the 1968 campaign, and was present at the creation of the Nixon Administration, has written an interesting piece —“Obama’s Experience Doesn’t Match...
