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...
Jul 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There are some alternate titles that came to mind as I prepared to write this, but since some of TNN’s readers are employees of the Washington Post – some of very long standing indeed – I thought it best to go with the least abrasive one that I...
Jul 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The new Newsweek’s summer reading issue includes a feature called “Best. Books. Ever,” in which well-known individuals recommend four of their favorite books in their particular areas of interest. Thus, Melissa Gilbert selects Hollywood memoirs,...
Jun 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Youtube is setting up a kind of journalism school of the internet, featuring clips in which various eminences of the Fourth Estate attempt to explain their profession in the space of five or six minutes. The project is being undertaken with the cooperation of many of...
