Dec 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In last week’s New Yorker, deputy “Talk of the Town” editor Lauren Collins set up a story about Ivy Leaguers in the Obama administration —“Team of Brainiacs”— by stirring up some trouble over one of the recently released...
Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post Glynnis Macnicol, editor at FishbowlNY.com, polls a number of notables (including Salman Rushdie, Fred Armisen and Ana Marie Cox) about their favorite recent reading. Jon Meacham, editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and author of the recent biography...
Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last week the marketing offensive for F/N finally embraced The Colbert Report. Host Steven Colbert had originally thought the movie was about RN teaming up with Jack Frost to save Christmas. He was disabused of this notion by his guest Kevin Bacon, who plays...
Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s WAPO Eli Saslow writes a profile of Jon Favreau — at 27 the youngest person ever to be named head of the White House speechwriting shop. This is certainly a more dignified appearance than the last time Mr. Favreau surfaced in the blatts. But...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The January issue of Smithsonian magazine features an article by James Reston Jr., whose book The Conviction Of Richard Nixon was an important source for the play and film Frost/Nixon (and who was portrayed in the play as the onstage narrator of the proceedings,...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Wonkette has just posted —with the usual snarky commentary under the headline “Richard Nixon Just Called To Say he Loves You”— a tape of RN’s conversation with the White House Operator on 25 December 1971. It was, of course, RN’s...
