May 19, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
In the month since the passing of Charles W. “Chuck” Colson, the Special Counsel for President Nixon who subsequently became one of Christian evangelism’s most dynamic figures, there has been much written about his two careers in politics and...
May 5, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
On many, many occasions, latterday Renaissance man Ben Stein has written about his lifelong admiration for President Nixon and the days he spent as a speechwriter in the White House in 1973 and 1974. But earlier this week at...
May 5, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Peter Morgan’s play Frost/Nixon, in the nearly six years since it premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London with Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella memorably playing the President, has been performed around the world, its popularity partly spurred...
May 5, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
On Thursday at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, President Nixon’s younger brother Edward spoke in the second of the Hipp Lecture Series on International Affairs and National Security. (The first event in this series was a debate among the...
May 1, 2012 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
“MythBusters,” one of the more popular shows on the Discovery Channel, spends lots of time figuratively – and occasionally literally – exploding such myths as “Is it easy to shoot fish in a barrel?,” “Can an old hammer actually explode?,” and “Is water bulletproof?”...
Apr 28, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Considerable attention was given two months ago to the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to China, but this month marked four decades since an event which, though it seems little-remembered now, was also a landmark in its way. During the 1971 tour...
