May 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Over at The New York Times last week the Editors of the Sunday Book Review must have been faced with a terrible dilemma. Having chosen (a suitable and interesting choice) George W. Will to review Rick Perlstein’s new anti-Nixon book Nixonland, which focuses on...
May 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
While attending a recent symposium at Georgetown University in Washington on the life and career of the late Richard Helms (CIA Director – 1966-1973), I observed a panel of Cold Warriors answering audience questions. Panelists included: Dr. Henry Kissinger,...
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Virtually every aspect of Sandy Berger’s brief and uncharacteristic career as researcher and thief at the National Archives —including the lackadaisical attitude of the Justice Department investigating and pursuing the case— raises more questions...
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
George Will’s column earlier this week was apropos his visit to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence.
May 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nixonians remember Sam Dash as the Majority Counsel who organized and orchestrated the Ervin Committee’s Watergate hearings. Many years later, in 1994, Professor Dash reemerged from the Georgetown Law Center to serve, mostly unhappily, as an ethics adviser to...
May 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The irreverent political blog Wonkette today characterizes today’s latest endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as “George McGovern hearts Barack Obama, the McGovern of the 21st Century.” Not that Wonkette is particularly friendly to Sen. Hillary Clinton;...
