May 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The Washington Post has assembled a sampling of the several TV ads that were made in some haste for the 7 May Indiana primary after Robert Kennedy announced his presidential candidacy on 16 March 1968. The Indiana ad campaign was entrusted to Charles Guggenheim, the...
May 1, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I’m sure that the many TNN readers who were only just recovering from their bicycle day celebrations on the 19th were shocked to learn of the death, on Tuesday, of Albert Hofmann. Dr. Hofmann succumbed to a heart attack at his home in his native Switzerland at the age...
Apr 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Why do poliical pundits, who clearly know better, promulgate simplistic and unrealistic explanations of the phenomena they cover? Maybe they’d rather raise red herrings than supply answers; once you’ve given the answer what more is there to write on the...
Apr 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Father Taylor is away for a couple of days, so allow me to take this opportunity to debase the integrity of The New Nixon by spreading a possibly frivolous and probably scurrilous rumor. The newly annointed Chairman of the United Moscow party may have decided to...
Apr 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
George S. Kaufman famously defined “satire” as “what closes on Saturday night”. The most recent example of this was Saturday Night Live’s cold open last weekend, a parody campaign commercial in which Bill and Hillary Clinton discuss their...
