Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Good friends we have had, Oh, good friends we’ve lost along the way. In this great future you can’t forget your past. The Gilberto Gil cover of “No Woman No Cry” has been working its way to the top of my TNN Weekly Weekend Reward queue for...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven! Wordsworth’s vision of 1789 is no less true in 2009 as hordes of young uns descend on Washington to begin their jobs in the Obama administration. JFK brought numbers of younger-than-usual...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The BBC’s excellent arts magazine radio program The Strand invited several writers and poets to compose “open letters” to Barack Obama on the occasion of his inauguration. The two that most impressed and moved me were those by journalist, author,...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life’s final common denominator—that something that we call death. We all think about it. And every now and then I think about my own death and I think...
Jan 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Andrew Wyeth died yesterday in his sleep at his family home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; he was 91. On 19 February 1970, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted the Wyeths at a dinner they gave in his honor, on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of his paintings in...
