Jan 24, 2010 | News, State of the Union, The New Nixon
Today’s Washington Post digs into oral histories to find speechwriters’ reflections on the State of the Union. From RN speechwriter Lee Huebner: I think it’s a schizophrenic speech. On the one hand, it’s an administrative tool, it’s a...
Jan 24, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Update 11/26/2010, 9:11 pm PST: A permanent video of the Domestic Policy forum is now available at C-SPAN.org. The first of a year-long series of Richard Nixon Legacy forums, The Domestic Policy Initiatives of the Nixon Years is now on C-SPAN 3 and streaming live...
Jan 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Last month I posted about a Baltimore Sun article reminiscing about the 1959 NFL championship game, in which the Baltimore Colts, playing on their home turf at Memorial Stadium, bested the New York Giants 31-16, one year after the Colts’s spectacular defeat of...
Jan 23, 2010 | News, State of the Union, The New Nixon
The Washington Post has an article in which White House speechwriters, going back four decades, talk about the way in which Presidents have approached the annual State Of The Union address before Congress. In it, Lee Huebner of George Washington University’s...
Jan 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Over in the UK, the Guardian has a short article by David Bowie in which the onetime Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke describes some of the contents of his iPod. His selections, as is usually the case with him, are eclectic, ranging from current rock bands to...
Jan 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In case you haven’t heard, this just in—Americans are angry. In fact, many are mad as hell, and they apparently aren’t going to take “it” anymore. Whatever “it” is, it is certainly not good news for current elected officials, no matter what the party affiliation...
