The Way It Is — And Almost The Way It Was

Aug 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

Robert Nedelkoff has noted —here and here— the remarkable revelation —first by Senator George McGovern in a 2008 New York Times op-ed, and, more recently elucidated, by Frank Mankiewicz in the Washington Post— that candidate McGovern...

One Of The Stories He Told

Aug 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

60 Minutes devoted its entire hour on Sunday to its progenitor and long-time executive producer Don Hewitt, who died a week ago today.  In typical 60 Minutes style, the program was informative, provocative, and entertaining. Hewitt always said that his editorial...

Change We Can Believe In

Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

From a profile of uber lobbyist Heather Podesta (“the Insider’s Insider”) by Manuel Roig-Franzia in today’s WaPo: In a glum economy, the lobbying business feels kind of bubbly. Every new Obama proposal comes with acres of fine print for...

WWNHD?

Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

I’m always hesitant to speculate on What Would Nixon Have Done? — partly because who really knows, and partly because such speculation too easily becomes an exercise in what the speculator wants done. But I can, unreservedly and without any hesitation or...

We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh

Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

Leave it to a German academic —Helga Kotthoff of the Frieburg University of Education— to conduct research establishing that, as a headline in the Telegraph puts it, “Humor is an act of aggression.”  (Which, as headlines go, is in the category...