Feb 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
While I’m probably a bit late to this party, the Frost/Nixon movie finally came to my small town of Pres-cut. (That’s the way the natives say it around here. If you pronounce it Prescott, then people ask where you’re from.) Walked away from the...
Feb 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Political advance —of which presidential advance is a subset— is an art as well as a science. It’s not just important to move POTUS from point A to point B in the most efficient and secure way possible. What he does when he reaches point B is,...
Feb 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Stephen L. Zetterberg, who ran against RN in 1948 to represent the 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. He was 92. His obituary appears in many papers today, among them The New York Times and...
Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Leon Panetta has come a long way since he was a maverick (and one man’s maverick is another man’s gadfly) in RN’s Department of HEW. The Wall Street Journal has just posted an article online indicating that President Obama’s nominee to head the...
Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Eleven years and three days ago, when the nation was ten days into the trauma that was l’affaire [Monica] Lewinsky (or Lewinski, as the late Richard Grenier initially spelled her name in his Washington Times column), the personal attorney of the errant intern,...
Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In his attack in today’s Daily Beast on the critics of Stanley I. Kutler’s book Abuse Of Power, John Dean informs the world that in the wake of the much-discussed New York Times article on the subject, he has decided that the time has come to republish his...
