Mar 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The new issue of The American Spectator has a column by Jonathan Aitken (former British cabinet minister and author of the one biography of President Nixon published in the post-presidential years that enjoyed RN’s full cooperation) discussing Frost/Nixon. It...
Mar 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
If, like me, you find the following funny, then you’ll probably enjoy the several other “More Apocryphal Stories of the Presidents” by Yoni Brenner in last week’s New Yorker: On a rainy night in 1793, the Van Buren family ox slipped in the mud,...
Mar 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Clive Crook, whose column from and about America in the Financial Times usually has something interesting to say, yesterday tendered an apology to his Republican readers. As you recall, in the debate over the fiscal stimulus, Republicans accused the president of...
Mar 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Once again, a Happy St. David’s Day to TNN readers. (In case you’re wondering: Wales 23 England 15.)
Feb 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Somehow, I should have known that a movie with a nuanced and more or less sensitive portrayal of the 37th President, Frost/Nixon, would soon be counterbalanced by one trading on the Evil Nixon archetype favored by so many of popular culture’s tastemakers. Such a...
Feb 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The recently released C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey is an interesting, if predictable, snapshot of scholarly opinion about past chief executives. Honest Abe towers over the list, his position secured by history and his frequent postmortem...
