Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s WAPO Eli Saslow writes a profile of Jon Favreau — at 27 the youngest person ever to be named head of the White House speechwriting shop. This is certainly a more dignified appearance than the last time Mr. Favreau surfaced in the blatts. But...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The January issue of Smithsonian magazine features an article by James Reston Jr., whose book The Conviction Of Richard Nixon was an important source for the play and film Frost/Nixon (and who was portrayed in the play as the onstage narrator of the proceedings,...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Wonkette has just posted —with the usual snarky commentary under the headline “Richard Nixon Just Called To Say he Loves You”— a tape of RN’s conversation with the White House Operator on 25 December 1971. It was, of course, RN’s...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times’ coverage of Caroline Kennedy’s first outing as a Senate candidate can hardly be what the Ms. Kennedy or her supporters had in mind. In fact, the story’s headline —In Appearance Upstate, Kennedy Says Little— is really...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Several years ago, David Cornwell (better known by his nom de plume, John Le Carré) told an interviewer that, “espionage was not really something exclusive and clandestine. It was actually the currency of the Cold War. Spies were the poor bloody infantry of the Cold...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Jonah Goldberg’s column today applies some belated common sense to current events: The freakout is understandable. Economic trust is breaking down. Investors are buying Treasury bills that pay no interest because they’re scared to leave their money even in...
