Jul 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today is the forty-second anniversary of a vitally important but mostly unheralded milestone on RN’s road to the presidency in 1968: his Lakeside Speech at the Bohemian Grove. He later wrote: "If I were to choose the speech that gave me the most...
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The bad news is that both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have, over the last few months, decisively jumped the shark. Maybe they changed writers; or maybe the old writers just ran out of snark and irony and steam, and decided that polemics were as funny as...
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The late Walter Cronkite learned the craft of journalism working for his high school paper in Houston and later for the Daily Texan at the University of Texas in Austin. One day in late March of 1935, he was sent to interview a visiting writer who was to speak at Hogg...
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The former RN staffer makes some interesting insights into RNs comeback in 1966-1968, as part of a comparison between RN and the former governor of Alaska. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From “Mother Jones”, there seems to be a new attempt afoot to find out what was on the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap on the tapes. Not from the tapes, but Haldeman’s notes during the meeting.
Jul 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
If the middle name on the President’s birth certificate turns out to be “Morpheus” — be afraid, be very afraid. (As originally seen on The Colbert Report.)