Nov 24, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In The Smithsonian, Peter Carlson recounts the famous 1970 meeting between RN and Elvis Presley. He quotes Egil Krogh’s notes: “I’m on your side,” Elvis told Nixon, adding that he’d been studying the drug culture and Communist...
Nov 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
“[I]t’s been some time since a work as nuanced, instructive and fascinating as Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, has appeared,” writes Carl Sferrazza Anthony this morning in The Huffington Post. Mr. Anthony,...
Nov 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The snow had fallen in massive quantities the night before and the temperature had plummeted to single digits. And the man who had provided steady and unruffled guidance to the United States of America during a potentially turbulent time, likely found himself watching...
Nov 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times reports: Last spring, Seth Grahame-Smith scored a best seller with “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” in which the 16th president slashes away at legions of undead political enemies. Now, another president is enjoying some hot paranormal action,...
Nov 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
David and Julie Eisenhower’s book about the last years of his grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory, continues to receive highly positive reviews. The most recent is in this morning’s Washington Times, by Aram Bakshian Jr., speechwriter to...
Nov 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Earlier this month Charles McDowell, who was on the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1949 until 1998, died at the age of 84. For most of his career McDowell was the paper’s Washington correspondent, and for 44 of those years he also produced a...
