Sep 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
World War II began seventy years ago today. After the initial German victories there would be some months of phony war before Europe really engaged; and it would take a couple of years before we entered; but today is when it began. W. H. Auden famously lamented the...
Aug 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s the best —you can forget the rest — from Paul Krugman’s column in today’s New York Times: …it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s...
Aug 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s San Jose Mercury-News has an editorial that begins by pointing out some similarities between the national health-care program advocated in the early 1970s by President Nixon, and the one that President Obama is now trying to get through Congress. The...
Aug 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The fortieth anniversary of “three days of peace, love and music” on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York, continues to be celebrated, most recently in movie theaters this weekend when Taking Woodstock, the new film by Cold Mountain and Incredible...
Aug 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From reading press accounts of Senator Kennedy’s legislative career, one might think that RN’s 1971 launch of the War on Cancer was simply a response to Kennedy’s initiatives. Indeed, their political rivalry did play a role. In politics, as in the...
Aug 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
When then President Bill Clinton spoke at former President Richard Nixon’s funeral, he suggested that the “day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close.” The speaker had no clue at the time how much he would need that...
