May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonians remember Sam Dash as the Majority Counsel who organized and orchestrated the Ervin Committee’s Watergate hearings. Many years later, in 1994, Professor Dash reemerged from the Georgetown Law Center to serve, mostly unhappily, as an ethics adviser to...
May 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The irreverent political blog Wonkette today characterizes today’s latest endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as “George McGovern hearts Barack Obama, the McGovern of the 21st Century.” Not that Wonkette is particularly friendly to Sen. Hillary Clinton;...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Richard Nixon prided himself on his mastery of foreign affairs, both as President and as a senior statesman. An accomplishment of which he was most proud was his opening to China, both because it allowed the U.S. to use the “China card” to balance out a rising Soviet...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The continuing flap over the statements by Jeremiah Wright and his association with Sen. Obama bring to mind situations in the past in which prominent politicians came under attack because of their associations with controversial individuals. FDR had to cover up...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
DeVan Shumway died on 23 April of lung disease. His obituary ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. Van was the spokesmen for the Committee to Re-Elect the President throughout the 1972 campaign, including the contentious and controversial Watergate period. Mr....
May 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The Washington Post has assembled a sampling of the several TV ads that were made in some haste for the 7 May Indiana primary after Robert Kennedy announced his presidential candidacy on 16 March 1968. The Indiana ad campaign was entrusted to Charles Guggenheim, the...
May 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Long after nightfall on January 20, 1969, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson arrived at their 330-acre Texas ranch. LBJ had been an ex-President for just a few hours. Throughout the day well-wishers had gathered – first at Andrews Air Force Base, then at Bergstrom Air Force...
May 1, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I’m sure that the many TNN readers who were only just recovering from their bicycle day celebrations on the 19th were shocked to learn of the death, on Tuesday, of Albert Hofmann. Dr. Hofmann succumbed to a heart attack at his home in his native Switzerland at the age...
Apr 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today I acquired a copy of Rick Perlstein’s second book, Nixonland, which Scribner is to publish May 12 (though the book is already being shipped at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble’s website). Starting tomorrow afternoon I’ll be blogging about it...
