Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Very few speeches actually influence the course of history. The November 3 speech was one of them.” —RN in RN Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon wrote and delivered a speech that both changed the course of American foreign policy and altered the...
Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In his introduction to the November 3 speech in his book Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, the late Bill Safire wrote: “There is nothing the president has reflected on with greater anguish,” Henry Kissinger told the Nixon senior staff in the...
Nov 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
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Nov 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The upcoming special election in the New York Twenty-third Congressional brings to mind an earlier three way election in the Empire State. The 2009 special election features Democrat Bill Owens, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Identifying...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
In June I wrote here of the death of Bernard L. Barker, one of the five men whose arrest at the Watergate complex on the evening of June 17, 1972, resulted in the unfolding of the scandal that claimed the Presidency of Richard Nixon. At that time I noted that of the...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Rocco Landesman, who was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by President Obama last May (as a replacement for Dana Gioia, the eminent poet who was its leader during the Bush administration), comes from an affluent and remarkable – make...
