Nixon’s New Jersey Friend Looks Back

Last week I wrote about a retired Atlantic City firefighter named Richard Nixon, whom the New York Times’s website had profiled in a series about everyday Americans with Presidential names. Today’s post is about the Richard Nixon who lived on the opposite...

Troublesome Facts About John Dean

Editor’s note: John Dean will be giving a lecture entitled Watergate: The Final Chapter from 7pm to 9pm (pst) at Chapman University in Orange, California. Original caption from Bettman/Corbis: John W. Dean III, the fired White House Counsel, is sworn in 6/25 as...

Lunch With Frank In Fairfax

During my visit to the Nixon Library in September, Sandy Quinn peppered our conversation with various expressions that all basically said the same thing: “You really need to talk to Frank Gannon.” Since then I have dialogued with Frank via email,...

Keeping The Faith

“Man’s God leans toward order, God’s Man leans toward chaos, and the tension in that eternal tug-of-war generates the energy of freedom” —William Safire From The First Dissident: The Book of Job In Today’s Politics —–...