Mar 25, 2009 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
May 31 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Alger Hiss’s first trial for perjury, during which the onetime advisor to FDR at Yalta and secretary-general of the founding session of the United Nations in 1945 managed to secure a hung jury, thanks to an...
Mar 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Los Angeles Times reports today that actor Stacy Keach, having recovered from a mild stroke that disrupted his run in Frost/Nixon at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre, will resume his role as President Nixon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights to conclude this...
Mar 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This morning Hillel Italie, the Associated Press’s man in the book world, takes a look at the genre of the Presidential memoir, in the wake of the deal former President George W. Bush made with Crown this month for his Decision Points. Italie is usually a...
Mar 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Daily Princetonian published an article today about the imminent departure of Jim Kelly (a member of Princeton’s Class of ’76) as Time’s managing editor. In the course of reminiscing about his long career with the magazine, Kelly recounts this...
Mar 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Everett, Washington Herald today has an interview with RN’s brother Ed Nixon concerning his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait. In the article, Ed explains that it was partly thanks to his famed elder sibling that he developed an interest in the field in...
Mar 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The one truly embarrassing moment in President Obama’s sit-down with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show came when Jay asked the Chief Executive if he had followed through on his promise, often articulated on the campaign trail, to replace the bowling lane installed at...
