Apr 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Over the weekend I picked up the new DVD of Ron Howard’s film Frost/Nixon. As noted last week, this has a number of interesting extras. One of these is a seven-minute short about the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, featuring former Library Executive...
Apr 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Roger Morris has an interesting take on RNs character in the latest and last addition of the 100 days blog on the New York Times; a blog that compares President Obama’s first 100 days with other modern presidents. In reading Morris’s stuff, I’ve...
Apr 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The lineup for next season’s Brinker International Forum series at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts has been announced. Most of it is not especially out of the ordinary: Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Swank, Lisa Ling (formerly of The View). But the final...
Apr 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Barry H. Landau, who was Assistant Chief of Protocol in the Ford White House, is a longtime student and historian of the Presidency who, in the last half-century, has met almost every pet kept at the White House. In this Associated Press article (from the Fort Collins...
Apr 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
20 January 1969: RN and PN in the Inaugural Parade after the swearing in at the Capitol. H. R. Haldeman noted in his Diary: “Expression on his face was unforgettable, this was his time! He had arrived, he was in full command, someone said he felt he saw rays...
Apr 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The headline in the Daily Telegraph was intriguing — “Are UFO’s real? Famous people who believed” — and the sub-head was promising — The former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has claimed that aliens exist and their visits are being...
