Feb 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Over the last couple of weeks, there seems to be a controversy in the presidential campaign over expressions of patriotism. Senator Obama is being criticized for not wearing a flag lapel, and not putting his hand over his heart when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance....
Feb 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I was born in 1964, which technically makes me a Baby Boomer. It also means my first-hand memories of the Nixon presidency are meager ones. I remember being angry about Watergate, because the extensive TV coverage of the hearings frequently pre-empted cartoons. And I...
Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
When John Taylor extended me the invitation to contribute occasional pieces to The New Nixon, I accepted immediately and knew instantly what I would point to in my first post: How I judge whether or not to read a new work on Nixon. Here’s my test: I open the...
Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last week, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman quoted Adlai Stevenson as warning of “Nixonland” – “a land of slander and scare.” Ironically, a vivid example of scare tactics came from Stevenson’s own lips at the end of the 1956 campaign. Crudely exploiting President...
Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It’s a great pleasure to welcome The New Nixon to the blogosphere. I think the thirty-seventh president would have been both fascinated by the power this amorphous nowhere-and-everywhere cybersphere now wields, and appalled (but also sometimes at least a little...
Feb 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
For years, Marjorie Klein was by the side of her husband, Herb Klein, on goodwill trips to foreign countries and embassy receptions. She was a partner but also a confidante to the former director of communications for President Nixon and Copley Newspapers executive....
