Mar 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Dith Pran, the translator who survived the killing fields of Cambodia, died earlier today of pancreatic cancer; he was 65. He worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times. He was made internationally famous when the actor who portrayed him (Dr. Haing S. Ngor) in...
Mar 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Harris’s novel The Ghost had considerable success in Britain where it was seen as a very thinly veiled roman a clef. The just-recently-ex PM in the book, Adam Lang, overlaps in almost every way (up to and including the same number of syllables in their...
Mar 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
A recent commenter of John Taylor’s post on Pat Nixon’s visit to the Vietnam war zone also remembers this historic event. In fact, he was one of the helicopter pilots who transported the President and his party in South Vietnam. The following is the...
Mar 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Col. Gene Boyer, middle, escorting Pat Nixon in Vietnam, 1969 Gosh, it would be fun to be an eyewitness sitting in the Clinton War Room today, hearing the Official Explainers duck and dodge the latest round on Mrs. Clinton’s “misspeak” of her...
Mar 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Much has been made —and rightly so— over Senator Obama’s speech last week about race. One would hope that the important speech Senator McCain made yesterday to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles will receive similar attention. Senator McCain...
Mar 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Boy is my face red. It turns out that recently discovered news footage from the former First Lady’s trip to Tuzla proves that everything she said was accurate; if anything, the “H Bomb” (as she was apparently admiringly nicknamed on this trip),...
