Sep 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Manu Raju reports in Politico on the “Revolving door for health care aides”: Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the...
Sep 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Arthur S. Mole —1889-1983— was an English commercial photographer who took a series of striking and innovative “living photographs” of American soldiers during and after World War One. Working with his American colleague John D. Thomas, Mole organized...
Sep 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Over at Politico, Glenn Thrush highlights a new ukase from House of Representatives Rules Commitee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter. Talk about breaking a butterfly on a wheel….. Instead of allowing his own sense of shame and/or his colleagues’ contumely to...
Sep 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On today’s Daily Beast, Chris Matthews exalts Senator Edward Kennedy’s prominent —indeed, in Matthews’ telling, pivotal— but hitherto largely unheralded role in using Watergate to cripple the Nixon administration and end the Nixon presidency. The headline...
Sep 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In July, in response to a post about Neil Armstrong’s famous first footstep onto the Moon on 20 July 1969, Barbara Nelson posted a comment about a photograph her husband took that same day of a soldier’s boots leaving their own distinctive prints in the...
