Sep 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jonathan Movroydis previously noted a The Los Angeles Times story quoting an Edward Kennedy yarn about the 1960 election: “And, believe me, I knew the odds. I was so certain of Jack’s victory that I placed a Las Vegas bet on it. My winnings could have...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, Bob Greene – the veteran journalist, not Oprah’s trainer – wrote a column for CNN.com about the nation’s winter of partisan discontent. (Well, yes, it is September, but the air did get perceptively colder this morning.) For decades,...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From the earliest days of RN’s administration he was plagued with leaks of highly classified material that ended up in the media. RN condemned the leaks as undermining his ability to end the war and conduct the nation’s foreign policy. The anti-war establishment...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jonathan Karp, the editor of Senator Edward Kennedy’s posthumously published memoir True Compass, was a guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal the other morning. He discussed the Senator’s version of the disastrous 1979 CBS interview with Roger Mudd. The two men sat...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 21 September 1972, RN announced the establishment of an Advisory Committee on the Economic Role of Women within the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He wrote: Women are playing an increasingly important role in the economy of our Nation. We in this...
Sep 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, Irving Kristol died at the age of 89 in Arlington, Virginia. The New York Times obituary calls him the “Godfather of Conservatism;” the Washington Post’s obit is headlined “Architect of Neoconservatism.” Either way, there is no...
