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Echo of 1970?
The upcoming special election in the New York Twenty-third Congressional brings to mind an earlier three way election in the Empire State. The 2009 special election features Democrat Bill Owens, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Identifying...
The Last Of The Watergate Cubans Speaks
In June I wrote here of the death of Bernard L. Barker, one of the five men whose arrest at the Watergate complex on the evening of June 17, 1972, resulted in the unfolding of the scandal that claimed the Presidency of Richard Nixon. At that time I noted that of the...
He Came, He Saw, He Muddled The Facts
Rocco Landesman, who was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by President Obama last May (as a replacement for Dana Gioia, the eminent poet who was its leader during the Bush administration), comes from an affluent and remarkable - make that...
Ted Sorensen’s Alternate History
This week Theodore "Ted" Sorensen, who was John F. Kennedy's closest aide from 1953 until the president's assassination a decade later, appeared at Canada's University of Western Ontario in London to speak about his career and to promote his recently published...
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning…
There has been quite a lot of coverage this week of President Obama's early-morning journey on Thursday to Dover Air Force Base to witness the arrival of the remains of eighteen American servicemen killed in Afghanistan, and to meet with their families. At her blog at...
The New Nixon Podcast Is Up And Running
During a recent visit to the Nixon Library, I had a discussion with several people about the potential for a podcast, something designed to highlight the events at the library, as well as the larger work of the Nixon Foundation. We determined to use the recent visit...
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Arnold’s Acrostic
RN sometimes used bad language in private, but what Governor Schwarzenegger did recently was much worse. To get back at a legislator who had taunted him, he inserted an obscene acrostic into a veto message for one of the legislator's bills. This act was not a sudden...
Sonny Rises In The West
At 7 PM tonight in Yorba Linda, the Nixon Library will welcome Elvis Presley's friend and bodyguard Sonny West, who will talk about ---and sign copies of--- his book Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business. White House photographer Ollie Atkins captured a candid moment...