Feb 8, 2014 | News, Pop Culture, The Nixons
Sunday, February 9, marks the 50th anniversary of the evening – also on a Sunday – when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collectively known as The Beatles, stepped onto the stage of CBS TV’s Ed Sullivan Show and, in less...
Feb 1, 2014 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Sports
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
Jan 25, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift’s Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in...
Dec 17, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Post-Presidential Years
Earlier this month, an article by Anneta Konstantinides at ABC News’s site considered the question of what President Obama might do after he leaves office on January 20, 2017. The President recently joked that he might go to work for ESPN, but on a more...
Nov 9, 2013 | News, News Media
In just under two weeks – on a Friday, as the workings of the calendar would have it – will fall the fiftieth anniversary of an event that took place early on a Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas, which marked one of American history’s most profound...
