Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At Air America and The Huffington Post, Mark Green compares Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon. He notes an obvious difference: RN “was vastly more experienced and sophisticated.” He has a point, but one could make the same point about most other political...
Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street. (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, and a year later — on 12...
Nov 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
During his second term, RN made expanding health coverage to all Americans a centerpiece of his domestic agenda. “If the Government pays all the medical bills, then only the Government has a stake in holding down medical costs. This means that Government officials...
Nov 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Beauty in the Beast: The Daily Beast’s choice of illustrations hints at the hatchet job that follows in the excerpt from Sally Denton’s new book about the 1950 California Senate Race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. The Daily Beast is...
Nov 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
George Will’s latest column in Newsweek discusses President Obama’s much-disputed claim, during his just-concluded trip to Asia, that he is America’s “first Pacific President” because he was born in Hawaii and raised there and in...
Nov 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last Saturday, Herbert J. Miller Jr., known as “Jack” to his friends and colleagues, died at age 85 in Rockville, Maryland. Miller, a native of Minnesota, came to Washington after service in WWII, graduated from George Washington University’s law...
