Jul 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
For those of us who grew up memorizing every word —indeed, every inflection— on Tom Lehrer’s LPs, the name and accomplishments of the late doctor Samuel Gall are as familiar (and as funny) today as they were the first time we heard them on An Evening...
Jul 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
RN’s “secret plan” to end the Vietnam war is the Dracula of canards. No matter how many wooden stakes are nailed through its nasty heart, it’s up again at first light, brushing off the dirt and walking the land ready to be cited in yet another...
Jul 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s Washington Post Book World, NPR host Scott Simon writes a glowing review of Stephen L. Carter’s new novel of political and family intrigues in the 1960s, Palace Council. Mr. Carter, a professor at the Yale Law School and a bestselling and...
Jul 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
At 9.40 PM EST tonight C-SPAN will broadcast “Writing the Inaugural Address” — a forum held last month at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Among the participants are Ray Price, who worked on both of RN’s Inaugural Addresses,...
Jul 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
If you want to get a headstart on the big weekend and/or have other plans for your Sunday, you can read Zev Chafets’ long piece about Rush Limbaugh from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine right here right now.
