The Airport To Nowhere

CNN has finally caught up with Carol D. Leonnig’s story in Sunday’s WaPo about the egregious porkfest that is the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”...

Michael Barone Reviews Nixonland

Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland came out in paperback last week, a month after his study of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, Before The Storm, was reissued by Nation Books. And, as it happens, the Claremont Institute’s website has just put up the review...

A Look Back At RN’s 1969 European Visit

Roger Morris, who was a National Security Council staffer in 1969 and 1970, and who later published a massive study of Richard Nixon’s career up to 1952, made two more contributions this week to “100 Days,” the group blog in which historians compare...

Is Gordon Brown The British Nixon?

When Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister just a few years ago, he enjoyed an somewhat extended honeymoon with the British press and public. There was some degree of sympathy for the Scottish politician because it was...