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...
Sep 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-nine years ago tonight —on Monday 26 September 1960— the first televised debate ever held between presidential candidates was broadcast coast-to-coast. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy faced off in the...
Sep 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Three months ago I wrote a post about a Philadelphia newspaper’s profile of Jennie Eisenhower, President Nixon’s granddaughter whose stage career has taken her to theaters around the country. Starting on Wednesday, and continuing until November 1, she can...
Sep 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Barack Obama’s visit to the United Nations this past week, complete with a major address and some quality time with a gavel, was yet another step in the process of seizing a much sought after role. For decades, U.S. presidents have routinely been referred to...
