Dec 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s New Yorker:
Dec 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Chattanooga, Tennessee Times-Free Press has an article by Adam Crisp this week about Dr. George Akers, a retired resident of the Volunteer State who spent his career as an educator in Adventist-affiliated universities. In 1970, he was the president of what was...
Dec 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Most congenial: Good friend and Whittier classmate Hubert Perry says that RN might have not been the most talented player on the college football team, but he was the most popular. In recent times, Neal Gabler’s penchant for originality has seemed to atrophy. His...
Dec 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Be there or be square: Unless you were POTUS you needed one of these on 6 December 1969. Forty years ago today, RN flew on Air Force One to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then boarded Marine One for the hop to the parking lot at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, to watch...
Dec 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post, Tom Shachtman writes: Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney in a recent interview with Politico labeled President Barack Obama’s drawn-out process of deciding on a troop surge for Afghanistan as projecting “weakness,” and...
Dec 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Gliders were used as a vital component of American military operations for a relatively short period of time, most notably from 1943-1945 during epic and crucial battles in World War II. Those who flew and manned these fragile crafts were among the most courageous of...
