Jun 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In a recent post I related an anecdote featuring the late Anglo-American journalist Henry Fairlie and referred to the collection of his essays, Bite The Hand That Feeds You, edited by Newsweek’s Jeremy McCarter and published by Yale University Press this month....
Jun 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Vice President Richard Nixon arrives in Ceylon, Sri Lanka in October 1953. In October 1953, Vice President Richard Nixon embarked on a precedent-setting tour of the countries of South and South East Asia. The newly elected Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower,...
Jun 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jennie Eisenhower, the actress who is the great-granddaughter of the 34th President and granddaughter of the 37th (and the daughter of David and Julie Eisehower), is the subject of an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by that paper’s theater critic Howard...
Jun 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday night’s broadcast of the Colbert Report from Camp Victory in Baghdad, Steven Colbert interviewed Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh. The Deputy PM’s academic training was in the UK; he spent some time in Washington as spokesman for the...
Jun 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a troubling and intriguing story that might otherwise have been buried on the back pages, little noticed, and soon forgotten. But these are the still the early days of an administration that both claims and proclaims the moral high ground, so this...
Jun 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There has been a great deal of talk that the GOP lacks a “main person” who speaks for it. (Google the words “leaderless” and “Republican” and you get more than 30,000 hits.) Whatever the party’s troubles, the lack of a...
