Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post, Ray Brescia writes of the phrase “Now, More Than Ever,” or NMTE: Interestingly, it was not George W. Bush who introduced the phrase to the political discourse. In fact, it was another Republican President, Richard Nixon, who used...
Dec 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
With the prospect of debates among British party leaders, an article in The Australian opines: Appearances do not only matter in television debating: they are, in some ways, the only things that matter. The first TV debate in 1960 pitted a sweaty, unshaven Richard...
Dec 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In The New York Times, Gail Collins writes: Back in 1971, Congress passed a bill aimed at providing high-quality early childhood education and after-school programs for any American family that wanted them. It was bipartisan, which in those days meant more than a...
Dec 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama mentioned RN in his Nobel acceptance speech. Michael Goodwin of the New York Post perceptively notes what the president left out: “In light of the Cultural Revolution’s horrors, [Richard] Nixon’s meeting with Mao appeared inexcusable...
Dec 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post, Tom Shachtman writes: Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney in a recent interview with Politico labeled President Barack Obama’s drawn-out process of deciding on a troop surge for Afghanistan as projecting “weakness,” and...