May 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President’s decision to adjourn his weekly White House luncheon with the Vice President to Ray’s Hell Burger across the Potomac in Arlington, was reported and deconstructed with an intensity that finally struck even the media as a bit much....
May 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here is the President’s speech to the White House Correspondents’ annual dinner at the Washington Hilton last night. He reads from a written text, and performs with the expected aplomb. Some of his jokes are excellent; some are OK; a few are actually...
May 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From Michiko Kakutani’s review in yesterday’s New York Times of Presidential Command, the new book by the late Peter W. Rodman of the Nixon Center: Mr. Rodman [argues] that Nixon, not Mr. Bush or Harry S. Truman, “deserves the title of the ‘decider,’ ” and...
May 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Brigadoon in the Blue Ridge: the main street of the Shenandoah Valley town of Staunton, Virginia. If Staunton has a sister city, it must be Brigadoon. Who knew that a small burnished gem was hidden quietly away in the Blue Ridge about two hours southwest of...
May 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This afternoon, at a packed Washington National Cathedral, the funeral of all-star AFL quarterback, longtime New York congressman, 1996 Republican vice-presidential candidate, and dedicated economic and social trailblazer Jack Kemp was held. Originally it was planned...
May 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Real Thing: POW Alex Lees (right) in Stalag Luft III. “I only played a small part. I did my bit, that’s the main thing.” If, like me, The Great Escape is in your pantheon of All Time Coolest Movies, you will be saddened to learn of the death of...
