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Yesterday was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the return to earth of the first two men to walk on the moon --- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo XI crew. The day before yesterday, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a member of the Apollo XIV crew and the sixth man to walk...

The day after welcoming the Apollo XI astronauts home from the moon, RN talked with some reporters during a stopover on the mid-Pacific island of Guam. The backstory and the reception of his very few words on that July afternoon have been the subject of speculation on...

Our good friend Dick Allen, who served as RN's foreign policy coordinator during the 1968 campaign, and was present at the creation of the Nixon Administration, has written an interesting piece ---"Obama's Experience Doesn't Match Up"--- in today's Wall Street...

On 24 July 1969, RN was in mid-Pacific welcoming the Apollo 11 crew home from the moon. Like the rest of the mission, everything had gone almost flawlessly. After traveling 240,000 miles, the capsule ---named Columbia--- splashed down less than two miles from the...

"West Virginia already has the men to match her mountains - men of vigor and courage and determination ." - Sen. John F. Kennedy in Glenwood Park, West Virginia, April 26, 1960, one of dozens of campaign addresses in which he spoke of "vigah" in his distinctive...

The Telegraph (London) is very partial to making lists --- from the 100 Most Influential US Conservatives to the 100 Most Beautiful Cars Of All Time. And now, in today's paper, and triggered by the fact that "When Senator Barack Obama steps onto the stage on Thursday,...

The director for security for the Beijing Olympic organizing committee announced today that protests would be allowed in specially designated areas in several parks in Beijing during the Olympics. According to BOCOG: “During the Olympics, in order to ensure a smooth...

Dan Rather has always been about as tightly wound as a coot in a chicken coop, but during a recent MSNBC appearance, his brain appeared to be about as dependable as a Times Square Rolex. For all those who miss the Danisms from the days when he was on the air and in...

Rick Perlstein's Nixonland hit British bookstores earlier this month, and at the London Telegraph Dominic Sandbrook, of Oxford's history faculty and the author of well-received books on Eugene McCarthy and England in the Swinging Sixties, reviews it. His assessment...

Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command said yesterday that he and his Chinese counterpart had agreed to conduct two bilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster response exercises. According to the Department of Defense: Keating said he and...