May 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Over at The New York Times last week the Editors of the Sunday Book Review must have been faced with a terrible dilemma. Having chosen (a suitable and interesting choice) George W. Will to review Rick Perlstein’s new anti-Nixon book Nixonland, which focuses on...
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Virtually every aspect of Sandy Berger’s brief and uncharacteristic career as researcher and thief at the National Archives —including the lackadaisical attitude of the Justice Department investigating and pursuing the case— raises more questions...
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
George Will’s column earlier this week was apropos his visit to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence.
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonians remember Sam Dash as the Majority Counsel who organized and orchestrated the Ervin Committee’s Watergate hearings. Many years later, in 1994, Professor Dash reemerged from the Georgetown Law Center to serve, mostly unhappily, as an ethics adviser to...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
DeVan Shumway died on 23 April of lung disease. His obituary ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. Van was the spokesmen for the Committee to Re-Elect the President throughout the 1972 campaign, including the contentious and controversial Watergate period. Mr....