Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The website of the Washington Post yesterday featured an online chat between assorted websurfers from around the world and an author trying to promote his new book. That, in itself, is unsurprising; the Post hosts such a chat once or twice nearly every week. However,...
Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s London Independent features another article about Frost/Nixon with some notable quotes from Sir David Frost, including his reflections on the pivotal moment in his videotaped interviews with RN: Under constant probing from Frost, the former president,...
Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
He was not a very nice man; but he was a very brilliant one. Creator of Rumpole; author; playwright; adapter of classics; not to mention one of the greatest lawyers of his generation. The BBC supplies a sampling of his bon mots. And the Daily Telegraph’s drama...
Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Noted by Tom Shales in his critique of President Bush’s farewell address: Although noting Bush has five more days in office before Obama is sworn in, CBS News anchor Katie Couric even prematurely deprived Bush of the traditional introduction afforded...
Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, a man left us who, for most Americans and many around the world, will always conjure up a host of treasured images – black-clad and dancing sensually with Cyd Charisse; slyly warbling “Baby It’s Cold Outside” with Esther Williams;...
Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Sometime after the transition in January of 1969, President Richard Nixon asked his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, how it felt the moment he knew he wasn’t president anymore. LBJ replied: I don’t know whether you’ll understand this now or not, but you certainly will...
