Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Back in middle 1980s, when I was a magazine editor, we would sit around my office one night shortly before each deadline and concoct each issue’s all-but-obligatory lists —Who’s Hot, Who’s Sexy, Who’s Who, etc., etc.— that would...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“With a little bit of luck, and the help of a few close friends, you’re going to carry Illinois.” —1960 phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daley “[The Illinois Senate Seat] is a [expletive deleted] valuable thing. You just don’t...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
(Politics breeds strange box fellows: flanking the Presidential Box at the Kennedy Center at last night’s Kennedy Center Awards: from left, Twyla Tharp, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, The First Lady, President...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s New York Times, veteran science correspondent William A. Broad previews two new books that combine to do some rewriting —or at least some major revision— of the atomic history. The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its...
Dec 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The AP reported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comment about the the possibility of his cousin Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg being appointed to completeHillary Clinton’s Senate term and running for the seat in 2010: Robert Kennedy said the family would come out en...
Dec 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
From RN: In December 1941, thanks to the recommendations of one of y professors from Duke, David Cavers, I was offered a job with the Office of Price Administration in Washington. The pay was only $3,200 a year, not nearly as much as Pat and I were making together...
