May 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In The New Republic, John Judis writes: Almost four months after his inauguration, President Barack Obama is still riding high in the polls. According to Gallup, 66 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing. But I expect that Obama’s popularity will...
May 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There’s been a lot of comment in the last 48 hours about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s appearance on Face The Nation, and it was probably a matter of time before he was dubbed “the new Nixon” by someone. That someone turned out to be Phil...
May 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As my esteemed colleague Frank Gannon mentioned Saturday, Director of The White House Military Office Louis Caldera resigned from his post Friday after the uproar caused by his office’s decision to carry out an Air Force One photo-op above the New York City...
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...
