Dec 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
‘Twas the night before Christmas: this photograph of PN (holding Checkers), six-year-old Tricia, four-year-old Julie, and the thirty-eight year old Vice President- Elect was actually taken on 20 December at their home in Washington.
Dec 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Tonight, Diane Sawyer, former aide in the Nixon White House who also was an editorial assistant for RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, made her debut as anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight. She did not get around to mentioning her old boss. But over at NBC Nightly...
Dec 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Oral Robert died last week. His death was widely noted, but most of the obituaries either overlooked or underestimated the importance of his life and career and his major impact on American religion and life. Many reflected the ridicule that resulted from his claim...
Dec 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
In July I wrote here about the uncertain status of the Watergate Hotel, best remembered, of course, for the break-in that ultimately brought about the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. At that time, the hotel had been put up for auction by Deutsche Bank, after...
Dec 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last week, Diane Sawyer, onetime aide to President Nixon in the White House and, after his resignation, at San Clemente, concluded her decade-long run as anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America; in rather symmerical fashion, she was replaced on Monday by George...
Dec 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Almost every pro football fan over the age of, say, 50 – and a good number younger than that – knows about the NFL championship game in Yankee Stadium on December 28, 1958, in which the seemingly invincible New York Giants, led by Frank Gifford, was upset...
