Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon launched the War on Cancer, which he considered a key initiative of his presidency. When Frank Gannon asked him if he had enjoyed more victories than defeats, he said: “That will depend on what happens. If, for example, there’s a...
Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From a profile of uber lobbyist Heather Podesta (“the Insider’s Insider”) by Manuel Roig-Franzia in today’s WaPo: In a glum economy, the lobbying business feels kind of bubbly. Every new Obama proposal comes with acres of fine print for...
Aug 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I’m always hesitant to speculate on What Would Nixon Have Done? — partly because who really knows, and partly because such speculation too easily becomes an exercise in what the speculator wants done. But I can, unreservedly and without any hesitation or...
Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Leave it to a German academic —Helga Kotthoff of the Frieburg University of Education— to conduct research establishing that, as a headline in the Telegraph puts it, “Humor is an act of aggression.” (Which, as headlines go, is in the category...
Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 2 August the New York Post ran a long excerpt from Ronald Kessler’s new book In the President’s Secret Service. Mr. Kessler has an impressive record as a responsible journalist, a serious author, and a go-to blogger, so I was surprised at the...
Aug 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Daily Beast offers a “Media Gallery” of Presidential vacations. The slideshow includes TR’s 1909 post-presidential African safari. HST vacationed aboard the presidential yacht USS Williamsburg, or at the Little White House in Key...
