Nov 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Politico has a clip of RN appearing to bow to Mao. Jim Pinkerton comments: “This footage, at 1:24, of Nixon’s bow was not at all a bow, as Obama bowed. Nixon clearly just shook his hand, and then bowed as someone was obviously paying him a compliment. Much...
Nov 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On the shoulders of giants: President Obama at his town meeting in Shanghai.* In his speech today, at his town meeting at Shanghai’s Fudan University, President Obama acknowledged the role —if not the name— of his Pacific Rim presidential predecessor...
Nov 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Nov 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The new issue of the New York Review of Books has a short op-ed, which first appeared as a blogpost last week at the magazine’s site, by Garry Wills, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and author of several dozen books about religion and American...
Nov 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ron Howard’s acclaimed film Frost/Nixon, based on Peter Morgan’s play which was a hit in London’s West End and on Broadway, depicts two men as the architects of the famous set of TV interviews with President Nixon: the future Sir David Frost and the...
Nov 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In Tokyo today, President Obama said: “As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.” The president was in error. Though he was...
