Apr 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Daily Telegraph runs a photo gallery of Queen Elizabeth with every POTUS who served during her reign (with the exception of LBJ). RN with EIIR at Chequers on 3 October 1970
Apr 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Politico’s Ben Smith reports an anonymous White House staffer’s explanation for President Obama’s controversial “bow” to Saudi King Abdullah: “It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than...
Apr 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I’m still working on getting a copy of Michael Kimmage’s The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (which I noted in an earlier post) and hope to review it before the end of the month. In the meantime,...
Apr 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post, blogger Jayne Lyn Stahl writes: “You’ll recall, too, that Barry Goldwater was a staunch supporter of Richard Nixon in his bid for the White House against John F. Kennedy in 1960.” Well, that depends on what the meaning of the...
Apr 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today in io9.com, the science-fiction blog which is part of the Gawker.com online group, Alasdair Wilkins takes a look at comic books, movies, science-fiction novels, and TV shows over the last half-century which have speculated on who might be sitting in the White...
Apr 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The bow heard round the world: Of course President Obama is a tall man with superb posture. From his height a normal upper torso tilt of recognition —and, yes, respect— can look like a borderline obeisance. And before the dudgeon about Mr. Obama...
