Oct 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From a recent Onion: Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the...
Oct 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-seven years after his own run for the office, RN is making a cameo in the race for California governor. The Sacramento Bee reports: More than a decade before Jerry Brown’s current incarnation as undeclared gubernatorial front-runner, he hit the airwaves...
Oct 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In their attacks on Fox News and tea-party protesters, White House officials are cribbing from a speech given 40 years ago next month. [W]e should ask what is the end value–to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result–to inform or to confuse? How does...
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...
