Aug 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Fifty years ago today, while campaigning in Greensboro, North Carolina, RN bruised his knee on a car door. Normally, such an event would go unnoticed in everyday life, much less the grand drama of a presidential race. In this case, though, the bruise led to a serious...
Aug 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In The Guardian (UK), Mark Lawson writes that he used to think that television was bad for historical literacy. Recently, though, while watching an episode of Glee, I wondered if this theory was entirely right and asked a passing 11-year-old to list all the US...
Jul 31, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Fifty years ago this week, RN accepted the Republican Party’s 1960 presidential nomination. One passage in his acceptance speech is striking: And now I want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as...
Jul 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Daniel Schorr, who just passed away, performed a valuable service to Nixon buffs by discovering that Deep Throat never really said “follow the money.” While writing one of his NPR commentaries years ago, he wanted to find out where it appeared in the book...
Jun 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At Salon, former House staffer David Sirota has an article about spending priorities. It begins: The last time America found itself in a budget debate pitting domestic priorities against war expenditures, Richard Nixon was in the White House and David Obey was the...
