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Nixon, the Zombie Slayer

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,...

Nixon in 1966

The GOP resurgence calls to mind the 1966 midterm, another successful year for the party.  RN was a big part of that success, as Warren Weaver wrote in The New York Times on November 13 of that year: The political equivalent of the batting championship for the 1966...

The Night Nixon Moved America

On Monday, November 3, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon sat at his desk in the Oval Office as the clock crawled toward 9:30 p.m. He was reviewing the words he would momentarily share with the American people.  There wasn’t a Teleprompter in sight. Nixon instinctively...

Is Obama In 2010 Like Nixon In 1970?

This morning the Washington Post published a column stirring a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, as the hours tick by before the voters decide the elections that constitute the first major referendum on the Barack Obama presidency.  It was co-written by Douglas...