Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s pardon yesterday of a turkey named Courage was the latest exercise of a clemency that may (or may not) have first been extended by President Truman in 1947. Because it’s Thanksgiving and children may be reading —and because the...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 — their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 —their first year in the White House— the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any families from nineteen DC area old age homes to...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Proclamation 3944 – Thanksgiving Day, 1969 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to “set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of...
Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
(This article was written for The New Nixon last Thanksgiving. Recently, the editor of The Jewish Press, “America’s Largest Independent Jewish Weekly,” asked permission to use it in the print and on line editions of that paper in the days before...
Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At Air America and The Huffington Post, Mark Green compares Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon. He notes an obvious difference: RN “was vastly more experienced and sophisticated.” He has a point, but one could make the same point about most other political...
Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street. (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, and a year later — on 12...
