Jan 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Noted by Tom Shales in his critique of President Bush’s farewell address: Although noting Bush has five more days in office before Obama is sworn in, CBS News anchor Katie Couric even prematurely deprived Bush of the traditional introduction afforded...
Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, a man left us who, for most Americans and many around the world, will always conjure up a host of treasured images – black-clad and dancing sensually with Cyd Charisse; slyly warbling “Baby It’s Cold Outside” with Esther Williams;...
Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Sometime after the transition in January of 1969, President Richard Nixon asked his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, how it felt the moment he knew he wasn’t president anymore. LBJ replied: I don’t know whether you’ll understand this now or not, but you certainly will...
Jan 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Actor Patrick McGoohan died in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a brief illness; he was 80. Beginning in the summer of 1968, the seventeen episodes of The Prisoner —the British spy-science fiction series he helped to create and starred in— were broadcast on...
Jan 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
You can almost feel the frisson that must have gone through what’s left of the newsroom at the Los Angeles Times when an anomaly in a fifty year old story seemed to hold out the possibility that RN was lying in the very first line of his 1978 memoirs where he...
Jan 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As reported in today’s (London) Times: The classic British bulldog, a symbol of defiance and pugnacity, is to disappear. A shake-up of breeding standards by the Kennel Club has signalled the end of the dog’s Churchillian jowl. Instead, the dog will have a...
