Jul 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Camille Paglia is back on Salon with one of her letter-answering columns. Always 100% quotable and at least 90% right regarding about 95% of what she says, she pins down the Palin problem — and describes the solution. (In doing so, she reflects the wisdom...
Jul 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Whenever new documents (or in the case of RN – tapes and documents are released), it is an opportunity to reassess a subject. Or at the very least, provide some nuance into the subject. Probably the best opportunity we have for this continuing process of discovering...
Jul 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Strange McNamara died yesterday at his home in Washington. He was 93. The former Harvard professor , Army vet, Legion of Merit recipient, and Ford Motors wunderkind served as America’s eighth Secretary of Defense, from 1961-1968, under Presidents Kennedy...
Jul 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The death at age 93 of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, stirs up a whole host of memories for people of a certain age – as many (and as mixed) as are stirred up by the death of Michael Jackson where a younger...
Jul 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From Confrontation to Negotiation: RN with Nikita Khrushchev in the famous Kitchen Debate in Moscow in 1959, and with Leonid Brezhnev (who had been part of Khrushchev’s official entourage in the Kitchen) on the Truman Balcony at the White House in 1973. In a few...
Jul 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At CQ Politics, Jonathan Allen contrasts Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon. “Palin doesn’t have Nixon’s interest in, or knowledge of, foreign affairs,” he writes. “Imagine the reaction if Palin suggested she had a “secret plan”...
