Oct 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Singer and performer Sammy Davis Jr. famously embraced RN at a youth rally at Marine Memorial Stadium. The structure, located in Key Biscayne, largely neglected by city officials, is at the center of a preservation effort. The Associated Press is reporting that the...
Oct 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
No American presidency is complete without the emergence of one, or two, or more catchphrases as thoroughly associated with the incumbent as “Would you believe?” or “You really know how to hurt a guy” are with the late Don Adams. John F....
Oct 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last week, as the Los Angeles Angels entered the American League playoffs, I wrote about the team’s first foray into the postseason thirty years ago, when former President Nixon was a regular at what was then Anaheim Stadium, and spectators were not allowed to...
Oct 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Tony Panaccio at postchronicle.com has an article about Ed Nixon, the last of the five brothers that included the 37th President. and author of The Nixons: A Family Portrait. In the article Ed speaks of RN’s visionary health-care plan: “My brother’s...
Oct 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a lesson in geopolitics this past week. It may be best described by comparing the now-all-rage reset button metaphor to that gizmo put out by office supply giant, Staples – yes, that red button that when pushed says,...
Oct 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last August, Frank Gannon wrote that it was significant that the new President of the Nixon Foundation — Ronald H. Walker — was also appointed to lead the National Parks Service in 1973. Significant because a prominent part of RN’s legislative agenda...
