Oct 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Saturday Night Live’s cold open did not go unnoticed on the Sunday morning talk shows — providing the basis of this week’s discussion about whether and/or how much the bloom is off the rose. Like Darrell Hammond with Bill Clinton and Will Ferrell...
Oct 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that founded the White House Fellows program. The Fellowships’s White House website describes the program’s origins: Declaring that “a genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society,”...
Oct 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Powers That Be: the President and Mrs. Obama with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley making their unsuccessful pitch for the ’16 Olympics. The Obamas’ journey to Copenhagen has produced a narrative more suited to Hans Christian Andersen than to David...
Oct 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I usually don’t find imitation Top Ten Lists very funny — but here’s a tip o’the cap to Rich Lowry for the one he emailed to “The Corner” at NRO earlier today: Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn’t Get the Olympics 10. Dead people...
Oct 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Leader’s Exhibit:” A statue of Mao ZeDong is featured with the bronze likenesses of nine other world leaders during RN’s presidency at the Nixon Library. Today, as is noted elsewhere at TNN, the People’s Republic of China celebrates its...
Oct 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
China celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding today. The massive military parade, propaganda films and genuine outpouring of pride by the Chinese people are befitting China’s growing clout and influence. I can not forget sitting up at midnight on July 1, 1997...
