Bow Wow

 Bo, the FPOTUS (First Pooch Of The United States), is clearly going to thrive in Washington — he already has his own White House website. The hypoallergenic puppy is already a savvy pol — having covered bases from the Kennedys to the animal shelter...

Don’t Forget Winona…Kingman….Barstow…

Last month I wrote about a recent appearance that Ed Nixon, the younger brother of the 37th President, made to promote his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait, during which he described how the sight of Meteor Crater in Arizona, in the course of a trip he made with...

Paging The Hardball Desk

At the website of the magazine Foreign Policy, David J. Rothkopf, a Washington-based consultant and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written about “Five Books That Haven’t Been Written Yet” (but, he continues,...

Speak Softly And Carry A Big Schtick

My wife and I have five wonderful grandchildren – four boys and a girl. We await the arrival of another grandson in a few weeks. Dealing with our children’s children is vastly different than what it was like raising our own – especially in the area of discipline. As...

HM & POTUS

Today’s Daily Telegraph runs a photo gallery of Queen Elizabeth with every POTUS who served during her reign (with the exception of LBJ). RN with EIIR at Chequers on 3 October 1970