Jul 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On November 11, 1962, five days after Richard Nixon told an audience of reporters that “you won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference,” ABC News aired a thirty-minute TV special titled The Political...
Jul 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
No, not those tapes. A little over two weeks ago I posted about one of the webpages of the groundbreaking and very informative nixontapes.org site run by Luke Nichter, an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State University in Texas. This page, at the time I...
Jul 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
38 years ago this week, President Nixon stunned the world when he announced that he would visit Communist China. Today, President Obama was supposed to meet President Hu Jintao in Italy, but that meeting was canceled at the last moment – but no one is worried about...
Jul 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Camille Paglia is back on Salon with one of her letter-answering columns. Always 100% quotable and at least 90% right regarding about 95% of what she says, she pins down the Palin problem — and describes the solution. (In doing so, she reflects the wisdom...
Jul 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Whenever new documents (or in the case of RN – tapes and documents are released), it is an opportunity to reassess a subject. Or at the very least, provide some nuance into the subject. Probably the best opportunity we have for this continuing process of discovering...
Jul 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Strange McNamara died yesterday at his home in Washington. He was 93. The former Harvard professor , Army vet, Legion of Merit recipient, and Ford Motors wunderkind served as America’s eighth Secretary of Defense, from 1961-1968, under Presidents Kennedy...
