Apr 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Worldly seventh grade public, private and home school students will be honored at an award ceremony April 7 in the White House East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. Keynote speaker will be Janet Evans, four-time Olympic gold medal winner in swimming. An...
Apr 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Quentin Letts is a columnist for the Daily Mail. He cut his teeth as the Telegraph’s Peterborough, and has been The Times’ New York correspondent. Much of what he writes is calculatedly over the top (think: Maureen Dowd but without the labored Shakespeare...
Apr 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
RealClearPolitics has a list of the 10 most important presidential visits to other countries. If you cannot guess which one came out on top … then you probably stumbled onto this blog by mistake.
Mar 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As President Obama travels to Europe to confer with leaders there about how to come to grips with the worldwide recession, Kate Pickert, at Time.com, compares the trip to earlier Presidential travels overseas. Ms. Pickert is a native of Watertown, New York, and...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
RN greeted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his arrival at Washington’s National Airport in June 1954. The PM might have been thinking “This is a very impressive young man.” Or, as we now know, he might have been thinking:...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Composer Maurice Jarre conducted a suite from his Oscar-winning score for Doctor Zhivago at a 1992 tribute to the film’s director David Lean. Composer and conductor Maurice Jarre died of cancer in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 84. Born in Lyon, he abandoned...
