Jan 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Washington Post, Mark Feldstein tells how the 1960 Kennedy campaign did opposition research on RN’s links to Howard Hughes. How did JFK’s campaign obtain this incriminating evidence? By paying the contemporary equivalent of $100,000 to a Los Angeles...
Sep 24, 2010 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the first television debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. In Slate, David Greenberg writes about the familiar claim that JFK won the debate among those who saw the debate on TV while RN won among those who only heard it...
Sep 12, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Today was the 50th anniversary of JFK’s famous address to Greater Houston Ministerial Association, in which he reaffirmed his belief in the separation of church and state. This occasion raises the question of whether his Catholicism help or hurt in his 1960...
Aug 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Fifty years ago today, while campaigning in Greensboro, North Carolina, RN bruised his knee on a car door. Normally, such an event would go unnoticed in everyday life, much less the grand drama of a presidential race. In this case, though, the bruise led to a serious...
Jul 31, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Fifty years ago this week, RN accepted the Republican Party’s 1960 presidential nomination. One passage in his acceptance speech is striking: And now I want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as...
