Nov 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In recent months little has been heard about the scandal that forced former Senator (and 2004 Democratic vice-presidential candidate) John Edwards from political life. A grand jury in North Carolina is now hearing testimony regarding the question of whether funds...
Nov 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This Tuesday, Barack Obama will travel to the United States Military Academy at West Point to deliver the most important address of his young presidency. He has obviously chosen the site for the speech with great care and in the hope that the backdrop – a storied...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s pardon yesterday of a turkey named Courage was the latest exercise of a clemency that may (or may not) have first been extended by President Truman in 1947. Because it’s Thanksgiving and children may be reading —and because the...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 — their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 —their first year in the White House— the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any families from nineteen DC area old age homes to...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Proclamation 3944 – Thanksgiving Day, 1969 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to “set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of...
Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
(This article was written for The New Nixon last Thanksgiving. Recently, the editor of The Jewish Press, “America’s Largest Independent Jewish Weekly,” asked permission to use it in the print and on line editions of that paper in the days before...
