Jan 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The initial wire-service reports this afternoon of President-elect Obama’s appointment of Leon Panetta to become director of the CIA made mention of his work in the Clinton Administration’s first term as director of the Office of Management and Budget and...
Jan 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Silver Spring, Maryland, where I live, has a number of ties to the 37th President. A half-mile north of my house, two teenagers lived on Harvey Road in the 1950s and early 1960s, the best of friends. One was future Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein; the other, future...
Jan 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, famed worldwide for his one novel The Catcher In The Rye (and, to a lesser degree, for such classic stories as “A Perfect Day For Banafish” and “For Esme With Love and Squalor”) reaches the age of ninety. If...
Dec 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The interview conducted by David Halbfinger and Nicholas Confessore of the New York Times with Caroline Kennedy (who seems to have dropped the name Schlossberg permanently), as linked below in today’s Featured Articles, did not have the headline “As A...
Dec 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It is hard to determine whether the number of books read by a President during his or her term, and which ones, have any real correlation to ability in leadership and governance. Lyndon Johnson, famously, was reported never to have cracked open a book in his five...
