Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Between 1969 and 1974, when there was nothing especially urgent to report, newspapers used to routinely publish articles about ten-year-old Little Leaguers or 95-year-old nursing home residents or 38-year-old insurance salesmen named Richard Nixon, which would...
Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last week I wrote of Max Holland’s highly interesting article in this month’s Washingtonian magazine concerning the unnamed lawyer connected with the Washington Post who (according to H.R. Haldeman in a conversation with RN on Oct. 19, 1972) had told a...
Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This past week saw the 40th anniversary of the “Silent Majority” speech — a reminder that RN had a couple of advantages that President Obama lacks. The first, as a commenter on an earlier post shrewdly suggested, is that RN had a captive audience...
Nov 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Just as Nixon was considered the only president who could open diplomatic relations with China, Clinton was the only one who could bestow upon Nixon the kind of public credibility he so desired. —Monica Crowley “Nixon in Winter” (1998) In my library, I try to...
Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Public response to the 3 November speech was phenomenal. The President, seen above with Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, displayed some of the letters and telegrams on his desk in the Oval Office. In his diary entry for 4 November, Haldeman wrote: Reaction day, and a...
Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Very few speeches actually influence the course of history. The November 3 speech was one of them.” —RN in RN Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon wrote and delivered a speech that both changed the course of American foreign policy and altered the...
