Oct 6, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At The Dallas Morning News, Jim Mitchell writes: In 1968, Richard Nixon swept into office with something called “the southern strategy,” which many Republican candidates have used as a wedge issue to attract white southern voters. It is a main reason GOP...
Sep 22, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
Years after losing to RN in the 1972 presidential election, George McGovern started a small business. In part because of taxes and government regulations, it went bust. At the Houston Chronicle, Chris Ladd writes: McGovern described the lessons he learned from his...
Jul 20, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Although saying that “All in the Family” was a fun show, an article in the International Business Times notes its shortcomings as sociology: Archie Bunker claimed he was Republican, as reflected by his admiration of President Richard Nixon; and later...
Jul 6, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to Midwestern news executives. In The New York Times, Tom Switzer quotes that speech to suggest that RN embraced American decline: Not only had the Soviets matched U.S. military might, the old cold warrior conceded, but Japan and...
Jun 7, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
FDR had Fala. RN had Checkers. Anthony Weiner has a couple of cats, to which he referred with a term that has a double meaning. Bad move: one study suggests that dog people outnumber cat people by nearly four to one. Note to the Congressman from The Great Survivor:...
