Mar 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The ‘Best’ Part of a News Summary Newspaper readers have their favorite sections. Everyone sees the headlines, but readers scatter after that: some to the comics, others to sports and still others straight to the obituaries and the weather. RN’s news summaries,...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
Feb 5, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Print media often referred to the Daily News Summary as the most exclusive newspaper in the world. It was a fair description because they were written to please just one person, RN himself. They began during the 1968 primaries by Pat Buchanan, who chose articles “the...
Jan 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This article is Part II of a series on how RN received the news. Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages – in spite of constant efforts to keep them...
Jan 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This article is Part I of a series on how RN received the news. I was a young man just a few months shy of my 30th birthday, the father of a 3-year-old girl, husband in a marriage struggling to stay intact, when a Staff Assistant to the President of the United States...
