Nov 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the days before communications could be encrypted, code names were required to provide at least a minimal mask for the identity of the POTUS and FLOTUS and members of the first families. Now they’re mostly an anachronistic habit with no serious security...
Nov 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nov 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Twenty years ago today —9 November 1989— the German Democratic Republic finally read the writing on the wall (literally and figuratively) and announced that open travel would be permitted between East and West Berlin and East and West Germany. This was the...
Nov 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I found it fascinating that on the 46th anniversary of RNs "last press conference", the Governor of Alaska gave her first national press conference without handlers. Something else that I found interesting was that while both press conferences protrayed the...
Nov 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Washington Post has a front-page feature by Wil Haygood, the biographer of Sammy Davis Jr. and Adam Clayton Powell, which tells the story of Eugene Allen, an octogenarian resident of Northwest DC who, from 1952 to his retirement in 1986, was a butler at...
Nov 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Critics accused the Old Man of sometimes using government resources for political purposes. The practice did not exactly start in 1969, nor did it end in 1974. The President-elect has now taken it into the Internet Age. His official transition website (change.gov)...
