May 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post Stanley I. Kutler, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, discusses President Obama’s selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Professor Kutler, who was the subject of some TNN posts last year concerning...
May 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Four score and seven years ago tomorrow —on 30 May 1922— the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated. As the Memorial’s website notes: President Lincoln’s only surviving son was a special guest at the May 30, 1922 dedication ceremony for the Lincoln...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
For many years I had a degree of respect —a minimal degree and a reluctant respect to be sure— for Richard Ben-Veniste. This was partly because he had dated Mary Travers (although that may have merited props more than respect); and partly because,...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night Ed Nixon, the last survivor (and youngest) of the five brothers that included the 37th President, spoke to a meeting of the Spartanburg County (South Carolina) Republican Party about his new book, The Nixons: A Family Portrait. (The audience included...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It’s been four days since an article by Richard Pérez-Peña in the New York Times told the story of how Robert M. Smith, a reporter in that paper’s Washington bureau, learned from FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray in late August of 1972 something about...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Over at Salon today Carina Chocano writes about “the magical moneymaking properties of humiliating self-exposure.” Her cases in point are last night’s ratings grabber season opener of John & Kate Plus 8, and Elizabeth Edwards’ recent, unfortunate, Resilience....
