Aug 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the midst of reporting about the Saddleback forum, cnn.com provided a flashback to a incident back last December involving Senator McCain and the question of his faith. This was of course when the Senator from Arizona wasn’t the “presumptive” nominee, but a...
Aug 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
……shouldn’t be visited on the children. Much less the grandchildren. Just because granddad’s gig was an unmitigated disaster for the entire world doesn’t mean that you’re disqualified from giving it a go in your own time....
Aug 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Gawker today links to a clip it says is from Youtube, though the clip, at this point, cannot be located on Youtube itself. It is no less than the trailer of Ron Howard’s movie Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella reprising his acclaimed Broadway performance as...
Aug 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the Telegraph (London), Czech-born British TV journalist John Tusa remembers forty years ago today, 21 August 1968, when the Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and crushed the hopes raised by the Prague Spring. Sir John has prepared a series of four...
Aug 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
On the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring, comes news of a Russian celebration, in occupied South Ossetia, of the rape of Georgia. Valery Gergiev, who is the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and who has conducted in...
Aug 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In late July 1968, against the beautiful backdrop of Skipper’s Cottage at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk, Long Island, Richard M. Nixon worked on the acceptance speech he would soon be delivering to the Republican National Convention in Miami. Working on yellow legal pads,...
