May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It’s been four days since an article by Richard Pérez-Peña in the New York Times told the story of how Robert M. Smith, a reporter in that paper’s Washington bureau, learned from FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray in late August of 1972 something about...
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Over at Salon today Carina Chocano writes about “the magical moneymaking properties of humiliating self-exposure.” Her cases in point are last night’s ratings grabber season opener of John & Kate Plus 8, and Elizabeth Edwards’ recent, unfortunate, Resilience....
May 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
UC Davis history professor Ari Kelman has written a long and interesting review article for the latest TLS, surveying four recent books about Abraham Lincoln. He makes a particularly compelling case for Looking for Lincoln: The making of an American icon, by the...
May 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The tradition of a day of remembrance for those who died on both sides in the Civil War —known as Decoration Day— began in the late 1860s. In 1882 the name was changed to Memorial Day and the fallen of other wars were also honored. In 1971 President...
May 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Read how overhearing a lunch conversation could have broken the Watergate story, kept Woodward and Bernstein cub reporters, and allowed Deep Throat to be only a bad skin flick.
May 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday David Chambers, whose grandfather Whittaker Chambers was one of the two primary figures in the case that brought Richard Nixon to the notice of the whole nation and then the world, reviewed Susan Jacoby’s Alger Hiss And The Battle For History in the...
