Jan 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
You can almost feel the frisson that must have gone through what’s left of the newsroom at the Los Angeles Times when an anomaly in a fifty year old story seemed to hold out the possibility that RN was lying in the very first line of his 1978 memoirs where he...
Jan 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As reported in today’s (London) Times: The classic British bulldog, a symbol of defiance and pugnacity, is to disappear. A shake-up of breeding standards by the Kennel Club has signalled the end of the dog’s Churchillian jowl. Instead, the dog will have a...
Jan 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night the Golden Globe Awards were handed out, with the sleeper Slumdog Millionaire sweeping every category in which it was nominated. Ron Howard’s acclaimed Frost/Nixon was completely shut out. Not even Frank Langella got the award for Best Actor –...
Jan 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As President George W. Bush conducted the final press conference of his tenure in the White House today, he was relaxed and reflective. He is clearly looking forward to riding off into the Texas sunset to enjoy life as a member of the former-presidents-club. He...
Jan 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As a once and future New Yorker I have at least some small stake in Governor Paterson’s impending appointment to the State’s soon-to-be-open Junior Senator’s seat. The stake is unlikely ever to be anything other than small because the Empire...
Jan 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The book section of today’s Washington Post includes a review of Russ Baker’s book Family Of Secrets by Jamie Malanowski (once a mainstay of Spy magazine in its 1980s heyday, later managing editor of Playboy) which includes this observation: In a...
