Jan 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life’s final common denominator—that something that we call death. We all think about it. And every now and then I think about my own death and I think...
Jan 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President-elect Obama has rightly received praise for reaching out to congressional Republicans. But he’s following an old path. In 1969, RN did something similar. From a The New York Times report dateline January 28, 1969 (published the next day): President...
Jan 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Andrew Wyeth died yesterday in his sleep at his family home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; he was 91. On 19 February 1970, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted the Wyeths at a dinner they gave in his honor, on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of his paintings in...
Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The website of the Washington Post yesterday featured an online chat between assorted websurfers from around the world and an author trying to promote his new book. That, in itself, is unsurprising; the Post hosts such a chat once or twice nearly every week. However,...
Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s London Independent features another article about Frost/Nixon with some notable quotes from Sir David Frost, including his reflections on the pivotal moment in his videotaped interviews with RN: Under constant probing from Frost, the former president,...
Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
He was not a very nice man; but he was a very brilliant one. Creator of Rumpole; author; playwright; adapter of classics; not to mention one of the greatest lawyers of his generation. The BBC supplies a sampling of his bon mots. And the Daily Telegraph’s drama...
