Feb 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The recently released C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey is an interesting, if predictable, snapshot of scholarly opinion about past chief executives. Honest Abe towers over the list, his position secured by history and his frequent postmortem...
Feb 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Edwin Trinka, the doorman at New York’s fabled Plaza Hotel 46 years, is about to retire. In his decades there he’s met countless folks who were rich, famous, or just looking for a good room for the night. His favorite guest of them all? “Richard...
Feb 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Since January 16, the New York Times has had on its site a group blog, “100 Days,” in which five presidential biographers take turns comparing the initial stages of the Obama Administration to five presidencies. Jean Edward Smith does the comparing to the...
Feb 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There is no escaping Richard M. Nixon. He did so much to shape the politics and policy of the last half-century that every president will end up echoing his words. Take President Obama’s address last night. The president spoke of reducing dependence on foreign...
Feb 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night Frank Langella lost the Best Actor competition in the Academy Awards to Sean Penn. But the veteran’s sterling performance in Frost/Nixon is still gaining accolades, not least from those who knew and worked with the 37th President. This weekend the...
Feb 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The intrepid Detroit News has tracked down the automobile registrations of the eight members of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry appointed last week to save the American automobile industry. The paper also checked out the auto info of the ten White...
