Blago Invokes the Old Man

Thirty-four years after his resignation, RN continues to obsess Democrats. The day before his arrest, Blago responded to a report that investigators had been taping him: “I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it....

Bill Ayers: Still Dissembling, Now Selling

In his column in today’s Washington Post, Charles Lane writes about Bill Ayers — the terrorist who won’t just won’t fess up and just won’t go away.  As Mr. Lane explains: “He’s got a book to sell and a misspent youth to...

Ivies and Intellectuals

Quoting a tape in which RN complains to Henry Kissinger about the presidents of Ivy League institutions, a New Yorker article adds: David Skorton, the president of Cornell, was apprised of Nixon’s comments over the phone. “My mouth is open,” Skorton said, after the...

The F/N Drumbeat Goes On

Today’s Daily Beast offers a veritable Nixon cornucopia —in fact, a pretty mixed bag, but none of it uninteresting— of F/N- and RN-related features.

F/N Gathering Its Rosebuds While, And Where, It May

As RN often equably observed, his books could always count on at least a couple of hundred thousand sales because the cons —who were eagerly anticipating delicious new Nixonian excesses and outrages— were as likely to buy them as were the pros —who...

The Creature From The Oval Office

In today’s Washington Post Peter Marks interviews Ron Howard, the director of Nixon/Frost, and Peter Morgan, its writer.  On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal the other day Howard assured viewers that the film, already playing in New York and Los Angeles and...