Osborne: “Mission To China”

As we come upon the the thirty-eighth anniversary of RN’s historic trip to China later this month, The New Republic has digged into their archives for John Osborne’s report on the “week that changed the world.”

Nixon, Obama, and Ohio

According to Hotline, Democrats are seeking to build an electoral college fortress in Ohio. An ODP [Ohio Democratic Party] document notes that the importance of the state to the Electoral College grows even more critical after this year’s census:...

“Only Nixon” Reviewed

The Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain has just published this review of James C. Humes and Dr. Jarvis Ryals’s book Only Nixon, which recounts the President’s historic China trip as seen from the perspective of the Chinese who helped arrange for RN’s...

Salinger The Hero

It’s now been just over a week since word came of the death at age ninety-one of J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher In The Rye and Franny And Zooey. A lot has been written since then, much of it focusing on the comparative seclusion in which he spent...