Apr 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland came out in paperback last week, a month after his study of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, Before The Storm, was reissued by Nation Books. And, as it happens, the Claremont Institute’s website has just put up the review...
Apr 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Roger Morris, who was a National Security Council staffer in 1969 and 1970, and who later published a massive study of Richard Nixon’s career up to 1952, made two more contributions this week to “100 Days,” the group blog in which historians compare...
Apr 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
When Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister just a few years ago, he enjoyed an somewhat extended honeymoon with the British press and public. There was some degree of sympathy for the Scottish politician because it was...
Apr 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This November, Michael Sheen, whose performance as David Frost in Frost/Nixon impressed critics and audiences both onstage and on film, will undertake a somewhat different part – the leader of the Volturi vampire clan in New Moon, the sequel to the massive...
Apr 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ever since Easter Monday 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to children for an egg roll, the White House has observed this springtime tradition. The Washington Times’ Mark Silva reported on plans for this year’s event: Now...
Apr 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President and First Lady leave St. John’s Church after Easter Sunday services this morning. The First Family attended Easter Sunday services at St. John’s Episcopal Church —“the President’s —and Presidents’—...
