White House Portraits: Bringing First Families Together

In keeping with a longstanding presidential tradition, President and First Lady Obama welcomed their predecessors President and First Lady Bush back to the White House to view their official White House portraits last week. President and Mrs. Nixon extended a similar...

The Hiss Case — Still Relevant

It was the case that first introduced Richard Nixon, then a first-term congressman from California, to the national political stage sixty-four years ago.  It made all of his subsequent political success possible. It also planted seeds of animosity toward him on the...

Nixon And Obama As First (Sports) Fans

There are a lot of differences in policy and style when it comes to the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth Presidents, but one thing they have in common is enormous interest in athletics.  At the sports site Grantland.com, Bryan Curtis examines at length the remarkable...

George Weigel Remembers Chuck Colson

In the month since the passing of Charles W. “Chuck” Colson, the Special Counsel for President Nixon who subsequently became one of Christian evangelism’s most dynamic figures, there has been much written about his two careers in politics and...