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,...
Jun 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the next day or so I’ll put up a post concerning dollars – that is to say, the estimated $300 million that Sen. Barack Obama may raise for his campaign, now that he has reversed his previous position and become the first major-party presidential...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
On the day that changed everything, September 11, 2001, then New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani seized the moment and guided that most unmanageable of all municipalities through its unsurpassed dark day. When the mayor reached the point of exhaustion in the early...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Republicans are comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter. Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy adviser, claims that Carter does not deserve blame for the malaise of the late 1970s. He says: “What led to the economic problems was the built-in inflation,...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
That is the query Barron YoungSmith, an intern at The New Republic, poses at the magazine’s website this week. (YoungSmith is a 2006 Brown University graduate, incidentally. And some people were amazed that 39-year-old Rick Perlstein was fascinated enough by...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Countering Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, RN biographer Conrad Black argues that RN won in 1972 not because he was a good polarizer but because he was a good President: It is not mentioned that only Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in more...
