Jul 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Washington National Symphony violinist Glenn Donnellan wanted to make the orchestra’s concerts for young people more engaging. So, naturally, he decided to make a violin out of a Louisville Slugger. As Anne Midgette reports in today’s WaPo: Donnellan made...
Jul 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jul 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Christina Cristoforou’s interesting illustration on the op-ed page of today’s New York Times places our forty-four first ladies’ hair styles in historically cross-hatched perspective. PN is in the middle of the second row from the bottom. This...
Jul 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President held a Town Hall meeting in Annandale, Virginia, on Wednesday. The logistics were the subject of some controversy. Before: And after (per the WaPo): In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House...
Jul 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In my opinion, the best part of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address on January 20, 1961, had nothing to do with asking anyone anything. The moment to remember was when he said: The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all...
Jul 2, 2009 | News, Space, The New Nixon
The Smoking Gun is featuring documents that the Nixon White House prepared before the Apollo 11 mission in the event that it ended in tragedy. Discover mutters that reading the plan “gives us the creepy feeling of reading the obituary of someone who is still...
