Mar 20, 2010 | News, Space, The New Nixon
The fortieth anniversary last year of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 stirred interest in the mineral artifacts brought back by that mission and the five others that reached the lunar surface. President Nixon, in the months after Apollo 11’s return, sent a...
Mar 20, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
“Behind every Watergate there’s a Milhous.” – Words on a button, manufactured sixteen years before The Simpsons premiered, seen at the Watergate exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC.
Mar 20, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
For a number of weeks C-SPAN, the venerable public-affairs cable channel founded by Brian Lamb, has had up a beta version of its video library, featuring many hours of its programming over the last 30-odd years. This week the site put up the full-scale version of the...
Mar 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
After several anxious days of waiting—watching out my office window for the faithful U. S. Postal truck—I finally received mine. Have you gotten yours? I sure hope so, because there isn’t much time—We The People—134 million households of us—have a deadline. In fact,...
Mar 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The Economist returns to a point that Frank Gannon made a couple of years ago: WHEN Nancy Pelosi moved to San Francisco, she struggled to find somewhere to live. For months, and with four small children, she lodged with her mother-in-law. So she was relieved when she...
Mar 18, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Daniel Henninger in today’s Wall Street Journal: After the Supreme Court’s restrictive police-search decisions in the 1960s, Richard Nixon rode “law and order” into the White House in 1968. Liberals got into trouble during the law and order...
