May 14, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie answers a question asked by Newark Star-Ledger reporter and editorial page editor Tom Moran at a press conference yesterday in Trenton. [youtube https://youtu.be/heb3mQW34BY]
May 14, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Many articles about President Obama have suggested that he is the first President to display any considerable skill as a basketball player. (Herbert Hoover used to toss a six-pound medicine ball over a volleyball net, but Hooverball’s another game altogether.) But...
May 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In June 2009, President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...
May 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
There has been considerable discussion in TNN about The Forty Years’ War, Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman’s book about foreign policy in the Nixon, Reagan, and both Bush eras. But it was not the only book Tom Shachtman published last year. St. Martin’s Press also...
May 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 65 on this date in 1940. May 10, 1940 was a moment of dynamism militarily and politically as Hitler’s forces swept across Belgium en route to France. One purported bulwark—the famed Maginot...
May 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Alaska Lt. Governor candidate and Chair of the U.S. Arctic Commission Mead Treadwell on Walter Hickel: Gov. Wally Hickel, who invited me in to his world when I was a high school grad visiting Alaska in 1974, and in the 36 years I worked with him, here in Alaska and...
