Jan 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The answer is: Elvis (on right in photo above), born 8 January 1935. But tomorrow the correct answer will be: RN, born 9 January 1913.
Jan 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Someone has to be pretty fascinating, pretty enigmatic, pretty Nixonian to keep one fascinated for 28 3/4 hours.” So says Sir David Frost about President Nixon in this CNN article (with accompanying video clip). Frost also discusses his visit to San...
Jan 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The initial wire-service reports this afternoon of President-elect Obama’s appointment of Leon Panetta to become director of the CIA made mention of his work in the Clinton Administration’s first term as director of the Office of Management and Budget and...
Jan 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Silver Spring, Maryland, where I live, has a number of ties to the 37th President. A half-mile north of my house, two teenagers lived on Harvey Road in the 1950s and early 1960s, the best of friends. One was future Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein; the other, future...
Jan 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, famed worldwide for his one novel The Catcher In The Rye (and, to a lesser degree, for such classic stories as “A Perfect Day For Banafish” and “For Esme With Love and Squalor”) reaches the age of ninety. If...
Jan 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
With apologies to Dion and his now 40-year-old song – Abraham, Martin, and John – I see the ghosts of three past presidents standing slightly off stage as the nation watches the approach of inauguration day. The ancient Israelites tended to name-drop a...
