Oct 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yahoo’s news section has an article about the latest celebrity endorsements of Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by two video clips. In one of these, paid for by the Obama campaign, actor Ed O’Neill, none too ably channeling his Al Bundy persona from the...
Oct 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Alas, it won’t be available in time for holiday giving this year, but a new book by William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn —Race Course Against White Supremacy— will be published by the Third World Press on 1 June 2009. The appealing and evocative title...
Oct 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
There’s good news for those in the Washington area who just can’t wait for the opening of the Frost/Nixon film. Peter Morgan’s original play, in its nationally touring production, opens at the Kennedy Center next month for a two-week run, with Alan...
Oct 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Words matter. It was said that Lyndon Johnson had little regard for “the integrity of words.” Sadly, that is how it is with many politicians. But at the end of the day, though we have many ways to examine a particular candidate, it comes back much of the time to...
Oct 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Ken Adelman’s credentials in Republican circles go back four decades. He served in the Commerce Department, then under Donald Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Defense, during the Nixon and Ford administrations respectively....
Oct 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a link to an article about the upcoming election by Joan Didion. It’s a short piece with a long provenance; it is brought to you via The Daily Beast (where it is nicely titled “Slouching Toward Washington”), from today’s Salon...
