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...
Jun 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In Time, Jay Newton-Small writes a sentence with a minor mistake and a major one: Richard Nixon practically perfected the transformation in 1968, initially building his “silent majority” of conservatives freaked out by hippie war protesters and inner-city...
Jun 24, 2008 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV, Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/gICgyHw95jg] June 24, 2008: Geoffrey Shepard, former Associate Director of the White House Domestic Council, talks working in the Nixon White House and Watergate.
Jun 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It’s probably a good thing that George Carlin didn’t believe in an afterlife. Because if he had, he would be turning over in his grave as a result of being remembered and lauded in the precincts of The New Nixon. He had no use and great contempt for our...
Jun 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This morning Nixonland author Rick Perlstein replies to The Age Of Reagan author Sean Wilentz at The New Republic’s site, and what he has to say will take Roger Stone’s mind off the question of which shirt to wear tomorrow, if only for a moment. The...
Jun 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Some weeks ago a commenter asked when I was going to complete my assessment of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. Rest assured it will come in a few days. In the meantime here is an interview with Perlstein from the new issue of the libertarian journal Reason,...
