May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Virtually every aspect of Sandy Berger’s brief and uncharacteristic career as researcher and thief at the National Archives —including the lackadaisical attitude of the Justice Department investigating and pursuing the case— raises more questions...
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
George Will’s column earlier this week was apropos his visit to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence.
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonians remember Sam Dash as the Majority Counsel who organized and orchestrated the Ervin Committee’s Watergate hearings. Many years later, in 1994, Professor Dash reemerged from the Georgetown Law Center to serve, mostly unhappily, as an ethics adviser to...
May 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The irreverent political blog Wonkette today characterizes today’s latest endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as “George McGovern hearts Barack Obama, the McGovern of the 21st Century.” Not that Wonkette is particularly friendly to Sen. Hillary Clinton;...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Richard Nixon prided himself on his mastery of foreign affairs, both as President and as a senior statesman. An accomplishment of which he was most proud was his opening to China, both because it allowed the U.S. to use the “China card” to balance out a rising Soviet...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The continuing flap over the statements by Jeremiah Wright and his association with Sen. Obama bring to mind situations in the past in which prominent politicians came under attack because of their associations with controversial individuals. FDR had to cover up...
