Aug 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Kagan’s column in today’s Washington Post is important and disturbing. Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Russia’s attack on sovereign Georgian...
Aug 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In 1969, says Nixonland, the new president “was sworn in by Justice Black” (p. 357). No, it was Chief Justice Earl Warren. The book thus misses a delicious irony. Nixon and Warren had been at odds since their days in California politics. In 1968,...
Aug 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The punchline of Richard Pryor’s joke (Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?) is called to mind by this just in from Beijing Who will ever forget the thrill of watching those gigantic firework footprints marching across the sky from Tiananmen Square...
Aug 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s Telegraph (London), Tim Shipman reports from Washington about the sea change of coverage involving Senator Obama. In the wake of his perhaps-a-shade-too-triumphal world tour, reporters have become more skeptical and comedians have become more enabled....
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The President is very much a man at ease in his own skin. And that’s a good thing. But then, he is the President. The President is in Beijing to cheer on our Olympic athletes. And that’s a good thing. But then, he is the first POTUS to attend an Olympics...
Aug 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonland credits Nixon’s 1968 TV campaign to Gene Jones, who had made a fine war documentary without narration. “Nixon’s commercials would run without narration as well” (p. 333). No, an important ad did have narration. ...
