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“The Gift That Keeps On Giving”

The phrase above has a long history, and, apart from certain quarters of the Fourth Estate, has a variety of meanings. It was originated back in the Roaring Twenties, somewhere in the offices of the Victor Talking Machine Company, part of the Radio Corporation of...

Roger Williams 1924-2011

"Pianist to the Presidents" Roger Williams  has died. He was 87. Performing at the White House since the days of the Truman Presidency, Williams was a dear friend to the Nixon Family and the Richard Nixon Foundation. Williams first performed for President Nixon at the...

Again With the “Southern Strategy”

At The Dallas Morning News, Jim Mitchell writes: In 1968, Richard Nixon swept into office with something called "the southern strategy," which many Republican candidates have used as a wedge issue to attract white southern voters. It is a main reason GOP candidates...

What McGovern Learned

Years after losing to RN in the 1972 presidential election, George McGovern started a small business.  In part because of taxes and government regulations, it went bust.  At the Houston Chronicle, Chris Ladd writes: McGovern described the lessons he learned from his...