Apr 28, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Considerable attention was given two months ago to the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to China, but this month marked four decades since an event which, though it seems little-remembered now, was also a landmark in its way. During the 1971 tour...
Apr 28, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
In the spring of 1972, long before his three campaigns for the White House, Pat Buchanan was the 33-year-old special assistant in the Nixon White House who had coined the term “silent majority” in the 1968 campaign and now was pondering how his boss could...
Apr 19, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Late last year I wrote about the news that Harry Shearer, veteran comedian and voice actor best known for his multitude of parts on The Simpsons, had contracted with the Sky Arts channel in the UK to do a special, Nixon’s The One, partly based on the 1971-73...
Apr 19, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
The late John Cummings, better known by his nom de rock’n’roll of Johnny Ramone, was one of the most important guitar players of the last half-century. His trademark buzzsaw approach to the strings was the instantly recognizable stylistic signature of...
Feb 21, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News
Besides the informative Daily Beast article by Winston Lord and Leslie Gelb discussed in Jonathan Movroydis’s post below, a large number of other stories have appeared online marking the four decades since President Nixon shook Premier Zhou Enlai’s hand on the tarmac...
