Jun 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Now that the general election campaign has started, there is a great deal of talk about the GOP’s “Southern Strategy.” Many accounts say that the strategy was responsible for electing Nixon in 1968 and thus became the template for Republican...
Jun 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Somewhere up there, perhaps, Tim Russert is sending the word out to the George Clinton who did not sing “dogs of the world unite,” John C. Calhoun, Thomas A. Hendricks, Adlai E. Stevenson I, and Charles W. Fairbanks to appear on next Sunday’s Meet...
Jun 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s New York Times brings news of the latest effort on the part of liberal and left-wing media figures to sway American public opinion – the launch of the Progressive Book Club. Its CEO, nonprofit fundraiser Elizabeth Wagley (whose father John Wagley...
Jun 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times has just posted an appropriately detailed and suitably appreciative obituary of Tony Schwartz, who died Saturday at home in Manhattan; he was 84. The highlight of his long and distinguished career in advertising, media, and communications,...
Jun 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Greetings, supporters and students of Richard Nixon! Just a note to thank you in advance for welcoming me to the Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda this coming Tuesday, June 17, at 7 pm, when I’ll be reading from, taking questions about,...
Jun 13, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Among the first online tributes to the late Tim Russert are this post from Kevin Thompson of the Palm Beach Post and an especially moving one from John Smyntek of the Detroit Free Press. The latter begins by discussing a column he wrote for his newspaper in 1998...
