Nov 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, California Flag, a five-year-old gelding, won the Turf Spring race in Santa Anita’s racetrack. The race is one of several that constitute the Breeders’ Cup, the event that, while not as well known to the general public as the Triple Crown races, is...
Nov 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
1972 Bumper Sticker Since “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” came out during my senior year of high school at Los Alamitos High in Southern California; Edmund Morris has always been an idol of mine. His clear, three dimensional writing on the twenty-sixth president...
Nov 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There’s good news for everyone who, after an evening spent watching Dan Aykroyd or David Frye in the 1970s, would turn to their friends and say, “OK, wanna see a real Nixon impression?” The Playhouse on the Square in Memphis is taking on Peter...
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...
