Apr 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Quentin Letts is a columnist for the Daily Mail. He cut his teeth as the Telegraph’s Peterborough, and has been The Times’ New York correspondent. Much of what he writes is calculatedly over the top (think: Maureen Dowd but without the labored Shakespeare...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
RN greeted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his arrival at Washington’s National Airport in June 1954. The PM might have been thinking “This is a very impressive young man.” Or, as we now know, he might have been thinking:...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Composer Maurice Jarre conducted a suite from his Oscar-winning score for Doctor Zhivago at a 1992 tribute to the film’s director David Lean. Composer and conductor Maurice Jarre died of cancer in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 84. Born in Lyon, he abandoned...
Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Back in the day it was a truism that you knew an issue or a subject had reached critical mass (and that you were really in trouble) when it started turning up in Johnny Carson’s monolog. This was certainly the case with Watergate. Jay Leno, in his wildest...
Mar 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President made his ground-breaking appearance on last night’s Tonight Show — the first sitting President ever to grace this particular gig. He looked great; he sounded great; he was thoughtful; he was clever; he was convincing; and, with the exception...
