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...
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...
