Jul 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
If you want to get a headstart on the big weekend and/or have other plans for your Sunday, you can read Zev Chafets’ long piece about Rush Limbaugh from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine right here right now.
Jul 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In Sunday’s New York Times, national legal correspondent Adam Liptak reported the breaking of some serious legal ground over at One First Street NE. Hidden away on page four of Chief Justice Roberts’ dissent in Sprint Communications Co., L. P., et al, v. APCC...
Jul 1, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
No website dealing with news and commentary about Richard Nixon, his Times, and his Legacy, can fail to note the passing of Clay Felker, who died earlier today at his home in New York. He was 81 and had been battling mouth and throat cancer for some time. More than...
Jun 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
One of the curious things about this ever-curiouser election is that half the time it seems like any of its interesting or unusual features ties in, somehow, with someone or something closely associated with the days of cold duck, bell bottoms and shag carpets –...
Jun 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As Barack Obama coasts to his coronation as the Democratic nominee in late August, he’s managed to convince many that he wears the mantle of Camelot. Toward that end, he’s been chasing Kennedy coattails every bit as much as he has delegates. Some who are clearly...
Jun 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Katherine Loker was a woman of seemingly infinite vision, energy, and drive, with a loving heart singularly focused on leaving the world better than she found it through a near-lifetime of her and her beloved late husband Donald’s discerning philanthropy. As a...
Jun 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Politico today proudly features a non-story with a misleading headline. (I assume they’re proud of the story because the text is accompanied by a video of reporter Jonathan Martin pretty much reciting it.) The headline is: “John McCain doesn’t work...
Jun 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday morning, toward the end of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski suppressed a giggle as she introduced Nixonland author Rick Perlstein. Viewers might have been forgiven for assuming the giggle was no different from any of the others that the frothy...
Jun 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Frank Langella as President Nixon in White House East Room in Yorba Linda Director Ron Howard’s new film, “Frost/Nixon,” will have its world premiere not in Hollywood but at the London Film Festival in October. With three scenes shot at the Nixon...
Jun 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The current on-going review of the history of APPEASEMENT during the 1930s and the lessons, if any, that can be applied to current geopolitics, has reminded some of the Nixonian philosophy of DÉTENTE. And there may appear to be a surface similarity. The argument goes...
