May 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From Bethesda, Maryland tonight comes the news that Jack Kemp, whose career took him from football triumphs with the Buffalo Bills in the 1960s to a highly productive House career in the 1980s to his vice-presidential candidacy alongside Bob Dole in 1996, has died of...
May 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
TNN reader Tom van Oosterom recently emailed our master of ceremonies Jonathan Movroydis after he and his wife saw the Frost/Nixon DVD, and observed that (comments in brackets are mine): [W]atching the DVD extras…one historical fact seems to have passed [up] by...
May 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Tomorrow marks the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, celebrated around the world (except maybe in England, where they mean something else entirely when they speak of “the Derby”) as the “greatest two minutes in sports.” Having grown up in...
Apr 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Over the weekend I picked up the new DVD of Ron Howard’s film Frost/Nixon. As noted last week, this has a number of interesting extras. One of these is a seven-minute short about the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, featuring former Library Executive...
Apr 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The lineup for next season’s Brinker International Forum series at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts has been announced. Most of it is not especially out of the ordinary: Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Swank, Lisa Ling (formerly of The View). But the final...
