Nixon Library In The OC Register

This weekend marks the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Richard Nixon Library, and the Orange County Register today devotes three articles to it.  In one article, reporter Jessica Terrell describes the events planned to mark the occasion this weekend,...

30 Out Of 43, Say (Some) Historians

For a number of years, the Siena Research Institute of Siena College has periodically polled historians to determine how they rank the Presidents from George Washington to the present. And, the last several times the results were announced, Franklin D. Roosevelt has...

Hugh O’Brian And Ed Nixon Meet

The Prescott, Arizona Daily Courier has a new article about Hugh O’Brian, star of TV’s popular Wyatt Earp series a half-century ago.  (In an accompanying photo, he sports the famous flat-brimmed Earp hat.) The 85-year-old actor, who is also reported to be...

The Forgotten War At 60

For many Americans, today marks the first anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson. But for those who still remember the conflict that cost over 50,000 American lives in just over two and a half years, it also marks the 60th anniversary of the day North Korean...

A Favorite Of Nabokov’s

Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita and Pale Fire who is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, was also (with his wife Vera) a profound admirer of President Nixon from the days of the Hiss case, ready to defend the thirty-seventh...