Aug 13, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
One of the unexpected bonuses of the current Olympic Mania (Phelps Division) is the revelation of a diet that I might actually be able to observe without cheating. Or at least, in the spirit of John Edwards, not cheating that much. Swimming sensation Michael Phelps...
Aug 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“Peace at the center”: RN smiling at Marie Abplanalp’s wedding Saturday, April 16, 1994 was a great day in the life of the 37th President. Marie Abplanalp, daughter of his friend Bob, was getting married in Bronxville, New York. President Nixon was a...
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....
