Sep 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The nation is the poorer for Bill Safire’s passing. As a columnist, commentator, and author, he enlightened and enlivened the public square for four decades. And the extended Nixon Family is shocked and saddened by the loss of a brilliant thinker and writer, a witty...
Sep 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times’ Danny Hakim has written an interesting and timely profile of Ed Cox. Accompanying the article is a slide show of several photographs, beginning with Mr. Cox’s wedding to Tricia Nixon in the White House Rose Garden in June 1971, through...
Sep 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Rule of Thumb #1 for President Obama: When Howard Fineman starts looking fondly back to the Reagan administration, you know you’re in trouble. Members of Obama’s own party know who Obama is not; they still sometimes wonder who he really is. In Washington,...
Sep 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s New York Times, Mark Leibovich offers up an interesting —and even relatively objective— profile of Liz Cheney based on a speech she gave in Nashville earlier this month. Perhaps if Mr. Leibovich read TNN more attentively, he...
Sep 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times website is reporting that William Safire, longtime columnist for the newspaper, one of Richard Nixon’s two leading speechwriters (with Ray Price) during the President’s first term, and, in 1959, an eyewitness to the Kitchen Debate in...
Sep 26, 2009 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
In early June of this year readers of Washington’s two dailies woke up to the news of the arrest of a much-liked, sophisticated, rather affluent local couple. W[alter] Kendall Myers, when FBI agents put the cuffs on him, was 72 years old; a great-grandson of...
