Jun 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
George Washington chatted with youngsters in the East Room at the Nixon Library today about his leadership during the Revolutionary War, his role in shaping the United States Constitution, and his tenure as America’s first Commander-in-Chief. President...
Jun 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At AOL News, former Nixon White House speechwriter and American legend, Ben Stein, tells of the lessons he learned from his father, Herbert Stein, who was RN’s chief economic advisor. (By the way, I once saw a photo of Ben in a Corvette, sporting a hairdo that...
Jun 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At the Christian Science Monitor, Peter Grier reminds readers that, as I noted previously, it was Richard Nixon who made Father’s Day an official national observance: The holiday’s popularity built slowly over the years. In 1957, GOP Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of...
Jun 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At the Des Moines Register, John Oler writes about the importance of civility, that vanishing aspect of American life, and offers an example especially fitting for Father’s Day, and worth quoting in its entirety: There has been a lot of talk about being civil in...
Jun 18, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As I mention at the blog around this time every year, Father’s Day, which arrives this Sunday, was first officially proclaimed a national holiday by President Nixon in June 1972. Here’s a moving column by David Whiting of the Orange County Register, who...
Jun 18, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal: There is still a sense about Mr. Obama that he needs George W. Bush in order to give his presidency full shape and meaning. In this he is like Jimmy Carter, who needed Richard Nixon, or rather the Watergate scandal,...
