Oct 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
RN sometimes used bad language in private, but what Governor Schwarzenegger did recently was much worse. To get back at a legislator who had taunted him, he inserted an obscene acrostic into a veto message for one of the legislator’s bills. This act was not a...
Oct 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At 7 PM tonight in Yorba Linda, the Nixon Library will welcome Elvis Presley’s friend and bodyguard Sonny West, who will talk about —and sign copies of— his book Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business. White House photographer Ollie Atkins captured a...
Oct 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, Time magazine asked a question that the President would answer definitively on 3 November.
Oct 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ever since President Obama’s took the oath of office twice last January, he’s been compared by pundits to every previous Chief Executive since Millard Fillmore or at least Chester Alan Arthur. For the last week the Nixon comparisons have flown hot and...
Oct 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Late last week Alexander Cockburn, one of the elder statesmen of unreconstructed radical journalism, posted an article on his CounterPunch.com site in which he discussed President Obama’s prospects of prevailing in his feud with Fox News. Unlike many more...
Oct 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
(Photo credit, Gary Byron Photography): Murals of President and Mrs. Nixon’s landmark voyage of peace to the People’s Republic of China are on display at South Coast Plaza. I had always assumed that ping-pong was a relatively easy game –the activity that...
