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Don Rumsfeld has issued a statement on the death of his ---and our--- friend and colleague Peter Rodman. Peter Rodman (1943-2008) Peter Rodman was a dedicated public servant, an incisive strategist, a consummate diplomat, a serious pupil of history and a measured...

R.E.M.'s Letterman debut, about which Father Taylor has inquired, was made in 1983 --- several years before my arrival on the scene. I began working at Late Night with David Letterman in 1987. On my first day I experienced a baptism by fire by being told to report to...

Recently, I was able to remodel a room in my house as sort of a study. After many months, I was finally able to retrieve the many boxes of books that I had in my library in San Diego. Paramount among these books was my library on everything Richard Nixon. Along with...

The Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and The Nixon Center are pleased to announce a new Commission on United States Policy toward Russia. The commission will be co-chaired by former Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) and Senator Chuck Hagel...

Both in Alaska and on Capitol Hill there has been remarkably little gloating ---much less rejoicing--- over Ted Stevens' current problems and apparently impending downfall. Even NPR's reporting has been as much in sorrow as in anger. Ted Stevens has been around this...

The last week saw the passing of a man and a woman who were both not only important figures at the Nixon White House, but by any measure significant in twentieth-century American history.  On July 23, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of...

Chinese authorities promised to relax internet controls as one of the conditions negotiated with the International Olympic Committee. However, over time, that commitment has been slowly eroded as the Olympics got closer. Chinese authorities later stated that internet...

Looking at a copy of Time today, and considering the utterly peripheral role the newsweeklies now play, it's impossible to imagine how much clout that magazine had for so long until television took over as the purveyor and arbiter of news in the early 1970s. But back...

Leon Wieseltier is the Washington Diarist in the new New Republic. "Dread of Winter" is a typically thoughtful, provocative, and stylish article about ---among many other things--- the recent "humorous" New Yorker Obamas-as-terrorists cover. There is also a new (at...

Here it is, uploaded less than 24 hours ago: the teaser-trailer for Oliver Stone's upcoming epic biopic W. It looks ---how can I put this delicately--- like a real stinker. But then it's only a trailer. It's a wonderful world, and a lot could happen between now and 17...