Oct 29, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Like Senator McCain, Senator Obama has assembled a team of experienced and mainstream advisors who advise him on foreign policy. His balanced policy statements on China and Asia reflect their combined expertice, charting a course for US-China relations that is...
Oct 29, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
China has not been a major foreign policy talking point for either candidate in during the campaigns. On the one hand, this is disappointing, because the US relationship is complex, dynamic and critical. Both candidates recognize that China is “rising,” and it will be...
Oct 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
With the exception of a very few slam dunk no brainer topics, I am loath even to speculate on —much less to purport to know— What Would Nixon Do?. That said, a tip o’ the cap to Roger Stone for his “WWND” post on yesterday’s...
Oct 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Daily Telegraph offers a pictorial “History of the Power Parade” — a look at the official automobiles of American presidents. There’s Herbert Hoover’s super cool 1932 Cadillac 452B V-16 Fleetwood Imperial (he may have raised...
Oct 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As a student in China in 1992, there was no internet access, no international cable TV (after 1989, CNN was only available in five-star hotel rooms) and imported newspapers were days old and cost almost ten dollars. Friends at the U.S. consulate provided video...
Oct 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
FDR (and RN) biographer Conrad Black has posted a thoughtful and instructive piece on The Daily Beast: “Why The Right Should Leave FDR Alone”. Apparently some right wingers (specifically “some supply-side economic purists”) have been bashing...
