Sep 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There must be something in the water over at the Daily Beast where posts sympathetic to RN (albeit unintended and/or inadvertent) have now appeared twice in three days. First it was Chris Matthews’ admiring exposition of the role Edward Kennedy and a panoply of...
Sep 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 16 September 1969, RN announced his first major withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. After careful consideration with my senior civilian and military advisers and in full consultation with the Government of Vietnam, I have decided to reduce the authorized troop...
Sep 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Manu Raju reports in Politico on the “Revolving door for health care aides”: Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the...
Sep 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Arthur S. Mole —1889-1983— was an English commercial photographer who took a series of striking and innovative “living photographs” of American soldiers during and after World War One. Working with his American colleague John D. Thomas, Mole organized...
Sep 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Over at Politico, Glenn Thrush highlights a new ukase from House of Representatives Rules Commitee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter. Talk about breaking a butterfly on a wheel….. Instead of allowing his own sense of shame and/or his colleagues’ contumely to...
Sep 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On today’s Daily Beast, Chris Matthews exalts Senator Edward Kennedy’s prominent —indeed, in Matthews’ telling, pivotal— but hitherto largely unheralded role in using Watergate to cripple the Nixon administration and end the Nixon presidency. The headline...
