Nov 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Ted Stevens conceded defeat in his bid for re-election to the Senate today, strengthening the Democratic hand in the upper chamber but at least saving the GOP elders some embarrassment. This eliminates the prospect, at least immediately, that Gov. Sarah Palin, as...
Nov 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
While there’s still time — if there’s still time — some FOB —Friend of Barack— should do him a real solid and slip him a copy of What Do We Do Now? — Steve Hess’ “Workbook for the President-Elect” hot off the...
Nov 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The improbable upward career of the improbable hit Frost/Nixon continues. The film, which will open in theaters on December 5th, premiered in New York last night at the Ziegfeld Theater. If you believe Fox News’ super savvy entertainment reporter Roger...
Nov 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
John Taylor below cites Dr. Kissinger’s remarks about the possibility of Senator Clinton following in his footsteps to Foggy Bottom. Even the idea of such an appointment has fascinated —and is on the verge of obsessing— the pundit class. If I were...
Nov 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The Associated Press today has an article by Calvin Woodward discussing the current speculation that President-elect Obama, known to have read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s bestselling study of Lincoln’s Cabinet Team Of Rivals, may follow the Great...
Nov 13, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It has now been about a half-year since Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland was published, and some time back I noticed that no review had appeared in The American Spectator, a magazine avidly read by the 37th President and usually not a place where major books about him...
