Nov 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, California Flag, a five-year-old gelding, won the Turf Spring race in Santa Anita’s racetrack. The race is one of several that constitute the Breeders’ Cup, the event that, while not as well known to the general public as the Triple Crown races, is...
Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There’s good news for everyone who, after an evening spent watching Dan Aykroyd or David Frye in the 1970s, would turn to their friends and say, “OK, wanna see a real Nixon impression?” The Playhouse on the Square in Memphis is taking on Peter...
Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Between 1969 and 1974, when there was nothing especially urgent to report, newspapers used to routinely publish articles about ten-year-old Little Leaguers or 95-year-old nursing home residents or 38-year-old insurance salesmen named Richard Nixon, which would...
Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last week I wrote of Max Holland’s highly interesting article in this month’s Washingtonian magazine concerning the unnamed lawyer connected with the Washington Post who (according to H.R. Haldeman in a conversation with RN on Oct. 19, 1972) had told a...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
In June I wrote here of the death of Bernard L. Barker, one of the five men whose arrest at the Watergate complex on the evening of June 17, 1972, resulted in the unfolding of the scandal that claimed the Presidency of Richard Nixon. At that time I noted that of the...
