May 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Christopher Nixon Cox, the 37th President’s grandson who gained prominence last year as the New York executive director of the McCain campaign, explains at Fox News’s website why he thinks North Korea’s recent saber-rattling is primarily the result...
May 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The image has become iconic. The group photograph of the 1945 Yalta Conference in February 1945: the unhappily marginalized WSC, the ailing, failing FDR, and the grumpy Uncle Joe greedily counting the chickens he was about to hatch. The scene will be recreated in the...
May 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post Stanley I. Kutler, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, discusses President Obama’s selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Professor Kutler, who was the subject of some TNN posts last year concerning...
May 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Four score and seven years ago tomorrow —on 30 May 1922— the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated. As the Memorial’s website notes: President Lincoln’s only surviving son was a special guest at the May 30, 1922 dedication ceremony for the Lincoln...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
For many years I had a degree of respect —a minimal degree and a reluctant respect to be sure— for Richard Ben-Veniste. This was partly because he had dated Mary Travers (although that may have merited props more than respect); and partly because,...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night Ed Nixon, the last survivor (and youngest) of the five brothers that included the 37th President, spoke to a meeting of the Spartanburg County (South Carolina) Republican Party about his new book, The Nixons: A Family Portrait. (The audience included...
