May 28, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible[…] “He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying...
May 27, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
Art Linkletter, who died yesterday at the venerable age of 97, was not the only nonagenarian to pass away this week who played a significant role in the life of President Nixon. On Sunday a man died in Arlington, Virginia, who was, rather incredibly, three months...
May 14, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Many articles about President Obama have suggested that he is the first President to display any considerable skill as a basketball player. (Herbert Hoover used to toss a six-pound medicine ball over a volleyball net, but Hooverball’s another game altogether.) But...
May 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
There has been considerable discussion in TNN about The Forty Years’ War, Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman’s book about foreign policy in the Nixon, Reagan, and both Bush eras. But it was not the only book Tom Shachtman published last year. St. Martin’s Press also...
May 8, 2010 | China, Foreign Policy, News
When considering why Richard Nixon was the President who decided to extend the hand of friendship to the People’s Republic of China, after more than twenty years of hostile relations between that country and the United States, it is important to remember that he...
