Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Eleven years and three days ago, when the nation was ten days into the trauma that was l’affaire [Monica] Lewinsky (or Lewinski, as the late Richard Grenier initially spelled her name in his Washington Times column), the personal attorney of the errant intern,...
Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In his attack in today’s Daily Beast on the critics of Stanley I. Kutler’s book Abuse Of Power, John Dean informs the world that in the wake of the much-discussed New York Times article on the subject, he has decided that the time has come to republish his...
Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday’s Boston Globe had an amusing op-ed in which Alan Cox and Stacy Keach (the Frost and Nixon, respectively, of the touring production of Peter Morgan’s play) and Bob Zelnick, the gray eminence of David Frost’s researching team, discussed the...
Feb 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From 1986:
Feb 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In 1968, February 2nd was a Friday — the day, forty-one years ago, on which RN officially declared his candidacy for POTUS. In RN, he wrote: “I began my second campaign for the presidency with a press conference on the afternoon of February 2, 1968, in...
Jan 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times site has just posted a very thought-provoking article (to appear in tomorrow’s edition) about recent charges by several historians that Abuse Of Power, the 1997 volume of transcripts of White House tape conversations transcribed and edited by...