Dec 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This afternoon, TNN’s own David R. Stokes is substituting for host Don Kroah from 4 pm until 7 pm EST at Washington’s WAVA (105.1 FM, simulcast from 5 pm at 780 AM, and also streamed live at the station’s site, www.wava.com). At about 5:15, I will...
Nov 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
A rather unusual op-ed appears in today’s Washington Post, written by Karl E. Meyer, a longtime writer (and editorial-board member) for both that paper and the New York Times, who recently retired after many years editing World Policy Journal, and his wife...
Nov 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
During his five years in the White House Lyndon Johnson, from time to time, would call in a group of honored Democratic (and Republican) elder statesmen to seek their counsel about the major issues in foreign policy and the Vietnam War. This group came to be known as...
Nov 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This afternoon my wife Rene and I went to the Kennedy Center in Washington to see a matinee performance of Peter Morgan’s acclaimed play Frost/Nixon, starring Stacy Keach as Richard Nixon and Alan Cox as David Frost, in a dramatization of their celebrated TV...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Erica Heller is a New Yorker in her fifties. In her twenties and thirties she worked in advertising. Then she dropped out of the field and wrote a novel, Splinters – a natural thing to do when one is the daughter of the late Joseph Heller, author of Something...