Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 2 August the New York Post ran a long excerpt from Ronald Kessler’s new book In the President’s Secret Service. Mr. Kessler has an impressive record as a responsible journalist, a serious author, and a go-to blogger, so I was surprised at the...
Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Daily Beast offers a “Media Gallery” of Presidential vacations. The slideshow includes TR’s 1909 post-presidential African safari. HST vacationed aboard the presidential yacht USS Williamsburg, or at the Little White House in Key...
Aug 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Up close and very, very personal: newly nominated Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas receives the “LBJ Treatment” in July 1965 in this classic photo by Yoichi Okamoto. Over at the Daily Beast, former LBJ aide Tom Johnson addresses WWLBJD? — how the...
Aug 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama and his family enjoyed and praised the beauty of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon during their recent whirlwind western tour. And Douglas Brinkley has written a doorstopper celebrating TR’s role in creating our National Parks. But it was...
Aug 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Unguided Missal? Mass composer Leonard Bernstein in 1971. Last week on The New Yorker’s website, music critic Alex Ross wrote three articles based on newly released Freedom of Information Act-obtained government documents regarding inquiries into...
