Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
When John Taylor extended me the invitation to contribute occasional pieces to The New Nixon, I accepted immediately and knew instantly what I would point to in my first post: How I judge whether or not to read a new work on Nixon. Here’s my test: I open the...
Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last week, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman quoted Adlai Stevenson as warning of “Nixonland” – “a land of slander and scare.” Ironically, a vivid example of scare tactics came from Stevenson’s own lips at the end of the 1956 campaign. Crudely exploiting President...
Feb 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It’s a great pleasure to welcome The New Nixon to the blogosphere. I think the thirty-seventh president would have been both fascinated by the power this amorphous nowhere-and-everywhere cybersphere now wields, and appalled (but also sometimes at least a little...
Feb 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
For years, Marjorie Klein was by the side of her husband, Herb Klein, on goodwill trips to foreign countries and embassy receptions. She was a partner but also a confidante to the former director of communications for President Nixon and Copley Newspapers executive....
Jan 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
He was an Ohio farm boy with an eighth-grade education who turned his $326 investment in a hot dog stand into the multimillion-dollar Carl’s Jr. fast food chain. He died January 11 at St. Jude’s Medical Center in Fullerton of the aftereffects of a stroke...
Jan 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
More than 350 visitors gathered at the Nixon Library on Wednesday, January 9, to celebrate the 95th anniversary of his birth, beginning with a formal wreath laying ceremony at the President’s grave, just steps from the 37th President’s modest birthplace....
