Nov 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
During his five years in the White House Lyndon Johnson, from time to time, would call in a group of honored Democratic (and Republican) elder statesmen to seek their counsel about the major issues in foreign policy and the Vietnam War. This group came to be known as...
Nov 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This afternoon my wife Rene and I went to the Kennedy Center in Washington to see a matinee performance of Peter Morgan’s acclaimed play Frost/Nixon, starring Stacy Keach as Richard Nixon and Alan Cox as David Frost, in a dramatization of their celebrated TV...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Back in the ’80s, Rich Hall invented Sniglets: Words that should —but don’t— appear in the dictionary. Such as: ACCORDIONATED (ah kor’ de on ay tid) adj. Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time. CARPERPETUATION...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As the big boys from the big three pressed their case this week for a taxpayer funded bridge or bailout (pick your metaphor), the role of big labor in Mr. Obama’s coming administration is being seriously tested even before the guy gets to say “so help me God.” Of...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Novak suspended his column last summer when he learned he had a brain tumor. The long-time Washington observer and uber-reporter arrived in the capital in the latter years of the Eisenhower administration. In this month’s Washingtonian magazine, he talks...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Erica Heller is a New Yorker in her fifties. In her twenties and thirties she worked in advertising. Then she dropped out of the field and wrote a novel, Splinters – a natural thing to do when one is the daughter of the late Joseph Heller, author of Something...
