Aug 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Director-writer-producer John Hughes died on 6 August while taking a walk in New York City. He was 59. Ben Stein calls John Hughes “the poet of human exaltation, the poet of human happiness” — and it’s impossible to imagine a more infectiously...
Aug 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A little over a year ago, when Rick Perlstein published his mammoth study of “the American berserk” – the original subtitle of Nixonland – in the years between 1965 and 1972, he concluded his 748-page saga of heated hardhats and howling hippies...
Aug 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In this morning’s Washington Post, Paul Begala, one of the architects of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and later a major White House advisor, contributes an op-ed. In it he argues that, although supporters of an expansive health-care policy (single-payer or...
Aug 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
An article by Richard J. Cross III in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun deserves quotation in full. Mr. Cross IDs himself somewhat in the piece; more recently he was press secretary and speechwriter for former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich. In February, America...
Aug 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ed Nixon, was on CSPAN yesterday to discuss the 35th anniversary of his older brother’s resignation: In another CSPAN interview dated two months ago, Mr. Nixon discussed his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait. Click here to order The Nixons from the Richard...
Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation, and since I wrote about coverage of this last night, some more articles and op-eds of note have appeared. Apart from the memorable discussion of RN’s achievements on this...
