Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The BBC’s excellent arts magazine radio program The Strand invited several writers and poets to compose “open letters” to Barack Obama on the occasion of his inauguration. The two that most impressed and moved me were those by journalist, author,...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It’s starting to look more and more as if the inauguration of President-elect Obama may augur an Era of Good Feelings not seen in the United States since James Monroe left the White House in 1825. Last week, a speaker at a public library not far from Richard...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In the final hours of his tenure, President Bush commuted the sentences of Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, the former Border Patrol agents who were serving time for shooting a drug smuggler. This action draws attention to the presidential...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life’s final common denominator—that something that we call death. We all think about it. And every now and then I think about my own death and I think...
Jan 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President-elect Obama has rightly received praise for reaching out to congressional Republicans. But he’s following an old path. In 1969, RN did something similar. From a The New York Times report dateline January 28, 1969 (published the next day): President...
Jan 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Andrew Wyeth died yesterday in his sleep at his family home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; he was 91. On 19 February 1970, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted the Wyeths at a dinner they gave in his honor, on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of his paintings in...
