Jun 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
What are the citizens of Vermont doing, now that the United States is being remade along the lines most of them seem to favor, and they no longer have to plot to secede from the Union to join Canada? Well, tonight, and next Tuesday, some of them will be going to see a...
Jun 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Jackson was always a keen reader of comic books, and in the 1980s he was often referred to in them. Comicbook.com takes a look at some aspects of his association with the comics world. It’s been widely reported that in his last weeks the Gloved One...
Jun 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Within a forty-eight-hour period the world lost three figures in the world of entertainment. Farrah Fawcett, in the days when she had Majors appended to her name, was the nation’s most popular sex symbol a year or so after Richard Nixon left the White House. Ed...
Jun 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Landon Donovan and US teammates celebrate the “stunning” 2-0 victory over Spain in Blomfontein. (AP photo by Antonio Calanni) George Vecsey reports for The New York Times: The stunning 2-0 victory by the United States over Spain —the best team in...
Jun 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At www.nixontapes.org, Luke Nichter of Tarleton State University (who was extensively quoted in the AP article Frank Gannon discusses below) takes a look at John Dean’s appearance at the Nixon Presidential Library last week. (This post also appears at History...
Jun 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Nixon Library has just released some 30,000 pages of new presidential records and 150 new tapes from January and February 1973. Among the many subjects covered are the end of the war in Vietnam. The New York Times, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times all turned...
