Jan 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night the Golden Globe Awards were handed out, with the sleeper Slumdog Millionaire sweeping every category in which it was nominated. Ron Howard’s acclaimed Frost/Nixon was completely shut out. Not even Frank Langella got the award for Best Actor –...
Jan 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The book section of today’s Washington Post includes a review of Russ Baker’s book Family Of Secrets by Jamie Malanowski (once a mainstay of Spy magazine in its 1980s heyday, later managing editor of Playboy) which includes this observation: In a...
Jan 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. From “Political Theater,” the new column by Joe Curl in today’s Washington Times, describing yesterday’s historic meeting of four Presidents and a President-elect in the White House: [A]s always,...
Jan 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, four men lunched at the White House at the invitation of President Bush. But not just any four. They were President-elect Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. This was the very first time all present and former...
Jan 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Someone has to be pretty fascinating, pretty enigmatic, pretty Nixonian to keep one fascinated for 28 3/4 hours.” So says Sir David Frost about President Nixon in this CNN article (with accompanying video clip). Frost also discusses his visit to San...