Jan 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The former presidents traveling road show of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton pulled into New Orleans yesterday for a gig with the National Automobile Dealers Association. Everybody knows that you’re supposed to open a speech with a joke, but who knew that Mr....
Jan 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ben Alpers of Oklahoma University put up a quite interesting blogpost this week tracing the roughly fifteen-year heyday of the “White House intellectual.” President Kennedy began the tradition by bringing in acclaimed historian (and walking definition of...
Jan 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Caroline Kennedy’s maladroit Senate bid has finally ground to a halt with the anticipated noontime appointment of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to Secretary Clinton’s coveted seat. The choice added insult to injury for the Camolites: not only isn’t it...
Jan 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s executive order regarding presidential records is a victory for future historians. (See here) Truly it is a new day for GWBs future historians. Before January 20, 2009, the future biographers of GWB faced a difficult road in the true telling of their...
Jan 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced this morning, and the list may not be one to bring a wide Opie-style grin to the face of Ron Howard. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button led the nominations with thirteen — many of them in...
Jan 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A lot is being made, and justifiably so, out of a number of previous Inaugural Addresses. Just the other night, all the Obamas read, on the north wall of the temple in which the 16th President’s memory is enshrined forever, the model to which the President...
