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Guns, Butter, and Accuracy
At Salon, former House staffer David Sirota has an article about spending priorities. It begins: The last time America found itself in a budget debate pitting domestic priorities against war expenditures, Richard Nixon was in the White House and David Obey was the...
The Forgotten War At 60
For many Americans, today marks the first anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson. But for those who still remember the conflict that cost over 50,000 American lives in just over two and a half years, it also marks the 60th anniversary of the day North Korean...
A Favorite Of Nabokov’s
Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita and Pale Fire who is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, was also (with his wife Vera) a profound admirer of President Nixon from the days of the Hiss case, ready to defend the thirty-seventh...
The Return Of Futurama (And Earth President Nixon)
Tonight at 10 pm, almost seven years after it ceased production as a series on the Fox network, Simpsons creator Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's science-fiction animated series Futurama will follow the example of Family Guy and premiere a season of 26 new episodes...
George Washington Inaugurates Meet the Presidents Series
George Washington chatted with youngsters in the East Room at the Nixon Library today about his leadership during the Revolutionary War, his role in shaping the United States Constitution, and his tenure as America's first Commander-in-Chief. President Washington's...
Ben Stein On Father’s Day
At AOL News, former Nixon White House speechwriter and American legend, Ben Stein, tells of the lessons he learned from his father, Herbert Stein, who was RN's chief economic advisor. (By the way, I once saw a photo of Ben in a Corvette, sporting a hairdo that would...
The First (Official) Father’s Day (And What Was In The News)
At the Christian Science Monitor, Peter Grier reminds readers that, as I noted previously, it was Richard Nixon who made Father's Day an official national observance: The holiday’s popularity built slowly over the years. In 1957, GOP Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine...
Civility Counts
At the Des Moines Register, John Oler writes about the importance of civility, that vanishing aspect of American life, and offers an example especially fitting for Father's Day, and worth quoting in its entirety: There has been a lot of talk about being civil in our...
Father’s Day With The Whitings And Bradlees
As I mention at the blog around this time every year, Father's Day, which arrives this Sunday, was first officially proclaimed a national holiday by President Nixon in June 1972. Here's a moving column by David Whiting of the Orange County Register, who reminisces...
Noonan on the Politics of Predecessors
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal: There is still a sense about Mr. Obama that he needs George W. Bush in order to give his presidency full shape and meaning. In this he is like Jimmy Carter, who needed Richard Nixon, or rather the Watergate scandal,...