Jack Kightlinger, RIP

Jack Kightlinger, the US Army Signal Corps photographer who was assigned to the White House in 1967 and visually chronicled five presidencies from Lyndon Johnson’s to Ronald Reagan’s, tragically died on Monday when the car in which he and his wife were...

The Madding Crowd — Now And Then

There must be something in the water over at the Daily Beast where posts sympathetic to RN (albeit unintended and/or inadvertent) have now appeared twice in three days. First it was Chris Matthews’ admiring exposition of the role Edward Kennedy and a panoply of...

9.16.69

On 16 September 1969, RN announced his first major withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. After careful consideration with my senior civilian and military advisers and in full consultation with the Government of Vietnam, I have decided to reduce the authorized troop...

Change You Can Believe In Only Too Well

Manu Raju reports in Politico on the “Revolving door for health care aides”: Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the...

Putting Things In Perspective

Arthur S. Mole —1889-1983— was an English commercial photographer  who took a series of  striking and innovative “living photographs” of American soldiers during and after World War One.  Working with his American colleague John D. Thomas, Mole organized...

Dumbing Decorum Down

Over at Politico, Glenn Thrush highlights a new ukase from House of Representatives Rules Commitee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter. Talk about breaking a butterfly on a wheel…..   Instead of allowing his own sense of shame and/or his colleagues’ contumely to...