Oct 31, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News
On October 16, Virginia H. Knauer died at her home in Washington; only late last week did obituaries start to appear from coast to coast noting her passing. Ms. Knauer had a long and distinguished career, which had among its highlights the fact that, from 1969 until...
Oct 17, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In the October 1967 issue of Foreign Affairs, an article appeared under the byline of Richard Nixon, “Asia After Viet Nam.” (The two-word spelling of this country’s name was what the magazine’s editors favored, but here I’ll use the more...
Oct 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Last year, I wrote here about David and Julie Eisenhower’s book Going Home To Glory, which described the last eight years of President Eisenhower’s life, partly as seen first-hand by his grandson David, partly through the accounts of others in interviews...
Oct 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
The phrase above has a long history, and, apart from certain quarters of the Fourth Estate, has a variety of meanings. It was originated back in the Roaring Twenties, somewhere in the offices of the Victor Talking Machine Company, part of the Radio Corporation of...
Sep 18, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Tomorrow (September 19) at 4 pm, the National Geographic Channel will do a repeat showing of Kissinger, the two-hour documentary that I posted about last week. Having watched it, I can tell you that, setting aside a few of the jazzier trimmings attached to it by its...
