Aug 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Up close and very, very personal: newly nominated Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas receives the “LBJ Treatment” in July 1965 in this classic photo by Yoichi Okamoto. Over at the Daily Beast, former LBJ aide Tom Johnson addresses WWLBJD? — how the...
Aug 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
….then the Orlando Sentinel has an article that may tickle your fancy – about Bill and Sue Wills, a Maryland team of husband-and-wife actors who, for years, have been presenting two-person shows in which they portray a President and First Lady. So far...
Aug 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The absence of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy last week from the funeral of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, followed by the death on Tuesday morning of columnist Robert Novak, who was diagnosed with brain cancer not long after the lawmaker fell ill from the same cause,...
Aug 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From 1993 until 2001, few figures were more prominent among the critics of the Administration then in charge than Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch, who, during those years, launched eighteen civil suits against the Clinton White House, and was often to be...
Aug 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama and his family enjoyed and praised the beauty of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon during their recent whirlwind western tour. And Douglas Brinkley has written a doorstopper celebrating TR’s role in creating our National Parks. But it was...
Aug 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Commentators such as Thomas Edsall, Charles Cooper and Michael Crowley have blamed protests against Obamacare on a GOP effort to stir up “angry white males.” It all goes back to Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” they say. The main...