Jan 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I took two walks earlier today. Despite the dire warnings of the media about the ghastly human gridlock that was (and probably will be tomorrow) inevitable, I braved the Metro system, and wandered around the Mall and the White House precincts for about an hour this...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Good friends we have had, Oh, good friends we’ve lost along the way. In this great future you can’t forget your past. The Gilberto Gil cover of “No Woman No Cry” has been working its way to the top of my TNN Weekly Weekend Reward queue for...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven! Wordsworth’s vision of 1789 is no less true in 2009 as hordes of young uns descend on Washington to begin their jobs in the Obama administration. JFK brought numbers of younger-than-usual...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The BBC’s excellent arts magazine radio program The Strand invited several writers and poets to compose “open letters” to Barack Obama on the occasion of his inauguration. The two that most impressed and moved me were those by journalist, author,...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
It’s starting to look more and more as if the inauguration of President-elect Obama may augur an Era of Good Feelings not seen in the United States since James Monroe left the White House in 1825. Last week, a speaker at a public library not far from Richard...
Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In the final hours of his tenure, President Bush commuted the sentences of Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, the former Border Patrol agents who were serving time for shooting a drug smuggler. This action draws attention to the presidential...
