Nov 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
David and Julie Eisenhower’s book about the last years of his grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory, continues to receive highly positive reviews. The most recent is in this morning’s Washington Times, by Aram Bakshian Jr., speechwriter to...
Nov 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Earlier this month Charles McDowell, who was on the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1949 until 1998, died at the age of 84. For most of his career McDowell was the paper’s Washington correspondent, and for 44 of those years he also produced a...
Oct 30, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This morning the Washington Post published a column stirring a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, as the hours tick by before the voters decide the elections that constitute the first major referendum on the Barack Obama presidency. It was co-written by Douglas...
Oct 30, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Tomorrow, on Halloween, a few minutes after 6 am, on a major cable channel, the thirty-seventh president of the United States will intone the passage of his August 8, 1974 speech to the nation that starts, “I am not a quitter. To leave office before my term is...
Oct 6, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The Most Dangerous Man In America, last year’s rather one-sided documentary feature about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, has gotten hosannahs from all the expected places, as well as an Oscar nomination. Last night the film had its television premiere...