Words To Live By

At the hybrid of online newspaper and blog that is www.examiner.com, Rudolf Okonkwo, urges President Obama to “be steadfast” when confronting his opponents, and, to illustrate that point, quotes another President: What I want you always remember is Richard...

The Nixon Wit

In tomorrow’s Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten devotes his weekly humor column to a departed politician – but not Sen. Ted Kennedy.  Instead, Weingarten spends several hundred words examining a long-forgotten book titled The Wit & Humor Of...

Diane Sawyer To Become ABC World News Anchor

In 1868, Benjamin Disraeli, upon achieving the office of British Prime Minister, at the age of 63 and thirty-one years after first winning election to the House of Commons, said: “I have reached the top of the greasy pole.” Disraeli was much admired by...

Paul Krugman. Now More Than Ever?

I never thought I’d live to see the day when I would recommend one of Paul Krugman’s opinion columns in the New York Times as a “must see” for readers of The New Nixon. That day has come (actually, it came yesterday, but I was on deadline on a speech, so I’m a day...