Mar 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
David Greenberg, author of Nixon’s Shadow and history professor at Rutgers, has an essay up at the Wall Street Journal’s site comparing the expectations generated by President Obama’s first hundred days (or the first 60 or so that have gone by so...
Mar 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On August 2, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge had breakfast in the White House residence with his wife, Grace, and remarked to her “I have been president four years today.” It was one of those quick, concise, directly-to-the-point sentences she had been used to hearing...
Mar 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President made his ground-breaking appearance on last night’s Tonight Show — the first sitting President ever to grace this particular gig. He looked great; he sounded great; he was thoughtful; he was clever; he was convincing; and, with the exception...
Mar 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A few minutes ago word reached the major news media outlets that actress Natasha Richardson had died at the age of 45, a few days after suffering head injuries in a skiing accident. Though her movie appearances were generally in out-of-the-way, little-seen films...
Mar 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Claude Brinegar, the second of RN’s two Secretaries of Transportation, died yesterday in a nursing home in Palo Alto, California. He was 82. The LA Times published a comprehensive obituary: Claude Brinegar, who as U.S. transportation secretary led an overhaul of...
Mar 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
