Mar 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Back in the day it was a truism that you knew an issue or a subject had reached critical mass (and that you were really in trouble) when it started turning up in Johnny Carson’s monolog. This was certainly the case with Watergate. Jay Leno, in his wildest...
Mar 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Among the more provocative article titles of recent days is the following: PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE: BEING GAY, FEMALE, OR NIXON
Mar 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
You may have thought Dick Tuck was dead, but he is alive and the guest of honor at an Aspen party. In an interview with Frank Gannon, RN once said: I’ve been the victim of dirty tricks, including bugging i–in 1962. There was no question about that....
Mar 25, 2009 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
May 31 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Alger Hiss’s first trial for perjury, during which the onetime advisor to FDR at Yalta and secretary-general of the founding session of the United Nations in 1945 managed to secure a hung jury, thanks to an...
Mar 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Los Angeles Times reports today that actor Stacy Keach, having recovered from a mild stroke that disrupted his run in Frost/Nixon at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre, will resume his role as President Nixon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights to conclude this...
Mar 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This morning Hillel Italie, the Associated Press’s man in the book world, takes a look at the genre of the Presidential memoir, in the wake of the deal former President George W. Bush made with Crown this month for his Decision Points. Italie is usually a...