Mar 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Although I haven’t yet seen Watchmen (and almost certainly won’t until it’s on DVD and works its way up my Netflix queue), I unhesitatingly confer the ultimate accolade of 5 Checkers on the film simply on the basis of its basic premise: The events...
Mar 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Seventy-six years ago today:
Mar 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As I’ve written before, one of my favorite quotations from RN is: “Politics is battle, and the best way to fire up your troops is to rally them against a visible opponent on the other side of the field. If a loyal supporter will fight hard for you, he will...
Mar 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The new issue of The American Spectator has a column by Jonathan Aitken (former British cabinet minister and author of the one biography of President Nixon published in the post-presidential years that enjoyed RN’s full cooperation) discussing Frost/Nixon. It...
Mar 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
If, like me, you find the following funny, then you’ll probably enjoy the several other “More Apocryphal Stories of the Presidents” by Yoni Brenner in last week’s New Yorker: On a rainy night in 1793, the Van Buren family ox slipped in the mud,...
Mar 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Clive Crook, whose column from and about America in the Financial Times usually has something interesting to say, yesterday tendered an apology to his Republican readers. As you recall, in the debate over the fiscal stimulus, Republicans accused the president of...
