Feb 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As the First Lady wages a campaign against obesity, the Associated Press reminds us that the fight has been underway for more than half a century. President Eisenhower created President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and tapped RN to head it. In...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This week Public Affairs Press has reissued Who’s Buried In Grant’s Tomb?, a book edited by Brian Lamb and originally published in 2000 as a companion volume to the “American Presidents” series of programs that were, at that time, being first...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Recently Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman appeared at the World Affairs Council in Washington to talk about their new book focusing on the foreign policies of the Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush Administrations, The Forty Years’ War. Above is C-SPAN’s video...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As we come upon the the thirty-eighth anniversary of RN’s historic trip to China later this month, The New Republic has digged into their archives for John Osborne’s report on the “week that changed the world.”
Feb 7, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
According to Hotline, Democrats are seeking to build an electoral college fortress in Ohio. An ODP [Ohio Democratic Party] document notes that the importance of the state to the Electoral College grows even more critical after this year’s census:...
