Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Sometime after the transition in January of 1969, President Richard Nixon asked his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, how it felt the moment he knew he wasn’t president anymore. LBJ replied: I don’t know whether you’ll understand this now or not, but you certainly will...
Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Actor Patrick McGoohan died in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a brief illness; he was 80. Beginning in the summer of 1968, the seventeen episodes of The Prisoner —the British spy-science fiction series he helped to create and starred in— were broadcast on...
Jan 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
You can almost feel the frisson that must have gone through what’s left of the newsroom at the Los Angeles Times when an anomaly in a fifty year old story seemed to hold out the possibility that RN was lying in the very first line of his 1978 memoirs where he...
Jan 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As reported in today’s (London) Times: The classic British bulldog, a symbol of defiance and pugnacity, is to disappear. A shake-up of breeding standards by the Kennel Club has signalled the end of the dog’s Churchillian jowl. Instead, the dog will have a...
Jan 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night the Golden Globe Awards were handed out, with the sleeper Slumdog Millionaire sweeping every category in which it was nominated. Ron Howard’s acclaimed Frost/Nixon was completely shut out. Not even Frank Langella got the award for Best Actor –...
Jan 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As President George W. Bush conducted the final press conference of his tenure in the White House today, he was relaxed and reflective. He is clearly looking forward to riding off into the Texas sunset to enjoy life as a member of the former-presidents-club. He...
