Dec 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Quoting a tape in which RN complains to Henry Kissinger about the presidents of Ivy League institutions, a New Yorker article adds: David Skorton, the president of Cornell, was apprised of Nixon’s comments over the phone. “My mouth is open,” Skorton said, after the...
Dec 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Daily Beast offers a veritable Nixon cornucopia —in fact, a pretty mixed bag, but none of it uninteresting— of F/N- and RN-related features.
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As RN often equably observed, his books could always count on at least a couple of hundred thousand sales because the cons —who were eagerly anticipating delicious new Nixonian excesses and outrages— were as likely to buy them as were the pros —who...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s Washington Post Peter Marks interviews Ron Howard, the director of Nixon/Frost, and Peter Morgan, its writer. On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal the other day Howard assured viewers that the film, already playing in New York and Los Angeles and...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Back in middle 1980s, when I was a magazine editor, we would sit around my office one night shortly before each deadline and concoct each issue’s all-but-obligatory lists —Who’s Hot, Who’s Sexy, Who’s Who, etc., etc.— that would...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“With a little bit of luck, and the help of a few close friends, you’re going to carry Illinois.” —1960 phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daley “[The Illinois Senate Seat] is a [expletive deleted] valuable thing. You just don’t...
