Jun 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Slate has put together an entertaining and already nostalgia-laden eight minute mini history of the just-ended contest for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. It skirts but averts being too clever by half, and will recall some already-forgotten...
Jun 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The undercard has been cleaned out, the preliminary rounds are all over, and everyone will now start focusing on the main event. This represents both the good news and the bad news for Senator Obama. It’s good news because he has won his party’s nomination...
Jun 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here on the east coast there is still a short time left of the fortieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination on 6 June 1968. Earlier this evening I was listening to C-SPAN radio’s excellent omnibus program: Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz’...
Jun 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
While the question of what women, in general, want may still be up in the air, this afternoon a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll sheds considerable light on what Democratic women want. In a survey of Democratic voters, 60% of the women polled stated they hoped...
Jun 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Barack Obama’s choice to involve Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, as part of a three-person team leading his search for a running mate is another not-so-subtle example of his very real desire to be seen as the present-day embodiment of Camelot. It may...
Jun 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday the Washington Post reviewed the revival of Russell Lees’ two-character play Nixon’s Nixon which is running at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, until June 22. (A previous post at TNN linked to an earlier Post article about this...
