Apr 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
W. Joseph Campbell is a professor at American University School of Communications. Before he entered academia he spent 20 years as a journalist, often traveling and working abroad (in the days when major American newspapers and magazines could afford to send a fair...
Apr 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, the death of Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, the Soviet Union’s ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986, was announced in Moscow. He was 90. Few diplomats served as long in Washington as Dobrynin. (One who served longer was Ernest Jaakson, who was...
Apr 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Less than an hour ago word came from Washington that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who was selected by President Ford as William O. Douglas’s replacement in 1975, has announced that he will retire when the Court’s spring term concludes at the end of June....
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Harry Robbins Haldeman, known professionally as H.R. Haldeman and to his friends, co-workers, and his President as “Bob,” was the Chief of Staff at Richard Nixon’s White House from January 20, 1969, until his resignation on April 30, 1973. The...
Apr 2, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Wednesday marked the passing of two men who, in their respective ways, were part of memorable moments in White House history. In Takoma Park, Maryland, Eugene Allen died at age 90. He joined the White House pantry staff in the last months of the Truman presidency, and...