In Search Of Nixon….In County Kildare

Last October at TNN, Jonathan Movroydis posted a link to a program on Irish radio commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to that green isle from whose soil his ancestors sailed to America.  Yesterday at the site irishcentral.com, John Fay,...

RN On Doctor Who This Weekend

As most couch potatoes know, a thousand years from now, Richard Nixon (or at least his head preserved in a transparent jar) will be completing his third term as President of Earth, as depicted in Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated series Futurama....

21 April 1969: RN + DR = OEO

Forty-two years ago today —on 21 April 1969— President Nixon announced his choice of a thirty-six year old  Chicago congressman —Donald H. Rumsfeld— to head the troubled and troubling Office of Economic Opportunity.   RN turned out to be both a...

Ken Hesse, 1935-2011

Kenneth Robert “Ken” Hesse, a member of the crew that flew Air Force One during the Nixon Administration, died on April 7 in Woodstock, Georgia, at the age of 76. His obituary appears here.  Along with his involvement in flights in which the President and...

Video: Writing For 37

Yesterday I attended the highly illuminating and interesting discussion at George Washington University’s Morton Auditorium in which after an introduction by Geoff Shepard, formerly of the Nixon White House’s Domestic Council, five of the thirty-seventh...