Aug 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The punchline of Richard Pryor’s joke (Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?) is called to mind by this just in from Beijing Who will ever forget the thrill of watching those gigantic firework footprints marching across the sky from Tiananmen Square...
Aug 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s Telegraph (London), Tim Shipman reports from Washington about the sea change of coverage involving Senator Obama. In the wake of his perhaps-a-shade-too-triumphal world tour, reporters have become more skeptical and comedians have become more enabled....
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The President is very much a man at ease in his own skin. And that’s a good thing. But then, he is the President. The President is in Beijing to cheer on our Olympic athletes. And that’s a good thing. But then, he is the first POTUS to attend an Olympics...
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonland credits Nixon’s 1968 TV campaign to Gene Jones, who had made a fine war documentary without narration. “Nixon’s commercials would run without narration as well” (p. 333). No, an important ad did have narration. ...
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the American Thinker today, Russ Vaughn addresses exactly the question I had about John Edwards’ purported fessing up — aka the otherwise very modified limited hangout that he dubbed a definitive statement (“I have given a complete interview on...
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
We have recently lost three outstanding members of our Nixon family — Anne Armstrong, Clay Whitehead, and Peter Rodman. In 1971 RN named Anne Armstrong co-chairman of the RNC. In 1972 he appointed her Counselor to the President with Cabinet rank. During the Ford...
