Jul 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Jul 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
(UPDATE: Great minds continue to think alike, and I published this post unaware of my colleague Robert Nedelkoff’s just-prior notice of this unhappy turn of events.) One reads today’s typically insightful Bob Novak column with the knowledge that he was...
Jul 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Novak’s new column concerning the campaign, linked to below among the featured articles, is a quite incisive analysis of Sen. Barack Obama’s big dilemma of the moment – how to get his support in the polls above 50%, which means trying to find...
Jul 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The August issue of Smithsonian has a feature on “Four Political Conventions That Changed America,” including articles on the 1912 Republican convention by Lewis Gould; the 1948 Democratic convention by Truman biographer Alonzo Hamby; the 1968 Democratic...
Jul 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s International Herald Tribune runs some interesting statistics regarding Chinese national ambitions and directions. Over all…Chinese satisfaction with the country soared in recent years, according to a survey of Chinese adults after the onset of...
Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In 1964, according to Nixonland, “Nixon was the only Republican of national stature not to abandon the Goldwater ticket” (p. 64). That’s almost true, but not quite. Dwight Eisenhower endorsed the ticket and made a TV spot with Goldwater. ...
Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here it is. No other interpretation seems possible. From the publisher’s description it doesn’t sound like a fun filled or instructional base is left uncovered. Who could be better qualified to write a book for the 4-8 year old set than Washington legend...
Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This week I finished Rick Perlstein’s book Nixonland. My conclusions are not very much changed from what I previously posted, and as I mentioned previously Oxford historian Dominic Sandbrook’s review in the London Telegraph expresses an opinion of the book...
Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Savage recently attacked kids with autism. One of those kids is my son, and I replied to Savage in National Review Online. I was able to keep my composure by remembering what Nixon once said: “One can only be angry with those he...
Jul 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. displays a list of what are called Moscow Rules – commonly accepted guidelines for the good guys during the Cold War. Basically, they are based on a through-the-looking-glass approach to reality, where nothing is as it...