Jul 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Camille Paglia is back on Salon with one of her letter-answering columns. Always 100% quotable and at least 90% right regarding about 95% of what she says, she pins down the Palin problem — and describes the solution. (In doing so, she reflects the wisdom...
Jul 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Strange McNamara died yesterday at his home in Washington. He was 93. The former Harvard professor , Army vet, Legion of Merit recipient, and Ford Motors wunderkind served as America’s eighth Secretary of Defense, from 1961-1968, under Presidents Kennedy...
Jul 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From Confrontation to Negotiation: RN with Nikita Khrushchev in the famous Kitchen Debate in Moscow in 1959, and with Leonid Brezhnev (who had been part of Khrushchev’s official entourage in the Kitchen) on the Truman Balcony at the White House in 1973. In a few...
Jul 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Philippine Republic and the USA share July Fourth as their Independence Day. On 4 July 1956, Vice President and Mrs. Nixon joined President Ramon Magsaysay and First Lady Luz Magsaysay in Manila to celebrate the Philippines’ 10th and America’s 180th...
Jul 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Washington National Symphony violinist Glenn Donnellan wanted to make the orchestra’s concerts for young people more engaging. So, naturally, he decided to make a violin out of a Louisville Slugger. As Anne Midgette reports in today’s WaPo: Donnellan made...
