Mar 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Fifty years ago today, on March 8, 1960, Richard Nixon and John Kennedy won their parties’ New Hampshire presidential primaries. The anniversary is an occasion to ponder how the presidential nomination process has changed. In 1960, there were only 16...
Mar 4, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On Tuesday morning at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, on the campus of Catholic University in Washington, about 800 mourners attended a funeral Mass for Gen. Alexander Haig. Among the priests conducting the liturgy was his brother, Father Francis Haig. The...
Mar 2, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
PN climbs through rubble in the town of Yungar during her goodwill mission to Earthquake devastated Peru in May 1970. As most know, a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the South American coastal nation of Chile last week. Thanks to moderately-strict building...
Feb 28, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Today concludes Black History Month 2010, and the Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record marks it with an interview with Bob Brown, who was the White House aide in charge of minority affairs in President Nixon’s first term. He recalls: When Brown [after...
Feb 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In 2000, James Rosen of Fox News interviewed Gen. Alexander Haig for his biography of John Mitchell. That book, The Strong Man, was published eight years later. But it turns out that, in the course of the three-hour conversation, the General talked of many other...
Feb 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In the immediate aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before the nation accepting the total blame for what had happened. He referred to an old saying about victory having a thousand fathers, but defeat being an orphan, and...
