Jun 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Landing on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944: “What chiefly stays in the mind…is the dreadful moment of stepping out into the bullets. Planners anticipated that 20,000 would be killed or wounded in a single day, more than a quarter of all those going ashore....
Jun 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University Thursday. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...
Jun 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Former President Lyndon B. Johnson acknowledges that Richard Nixon, as a Republican President, has been able to accomplish some things that a Democratic President could not have… “‘Can’t you just see the uproar,’ he asked during a recent interview, ‘if I had been...
Jun 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It was in the papers, but covered far from sufficiently, when Elisha “Ray” Nance died six weeks ago at the age of 94. He was well known around Bedford, Virginia, a picturesque town located at the feet of the Blue Ridge Peaks of Otter, where for years he delivered the...
Jun 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday afternoon, while POTUS was entering Saudi air space, FLOTUS 44 was entertaining FLOTUS 40 to luncheon in the Family Quarters. The meal —at which the two met for the first time— was served on the colorful (and once controversially costly)...
