Dec 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a brief (and highly selective) look back forty years ago — to 1969. Many other important and memorable events occurred — but their photos haven’t yet reached the internet. On 20 January 1969, RN was inaugurated as...
Dec 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In A Life in Full, his biography of RN, Conrad Black surveys the situation at the end of the Nixon Administration’s first year, on New Year’s Eve 1969: Nixon had withdrawn another 50,000 men from Vietnam by year’s end, bringing U.S. force levels down...
Dec 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Dec 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
‘Twas the night before Christmas: this photograph of PN (holding Checkers), six-year-old Tricia, four-year-old Julie, and the thirty-eight year old Vice President- Elect was actually taken on 20 December at their home in Washington.
Dec 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Oral Robert died last week. His death was widely noted, but most of the obituaries either overlooked or underestimated the importance of his life and career and his major impact on American religion and life. Many reflected the ridicule that resulted from his claim...
