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June 12, 1971 (And a Favorite Photo)

Thirty-nine years ago today Tricia Nixon married Edward Finch Cox in the White House Rose Garden, in one of the truly most memorable moments in the Executive Mansion's history. Last month, Mrs. Cox visited the White House for a Mother's Day tea, as described some days...

Expletive Deleted

President Obama's recent TV statement about kicking posterior led a number of journalists to muse about previous presidents who used bad language in the White House. Thanks to the tapes, of course, we know about RN's unfortunate weakness for expletives. But as a...

Ben Stein on the Malek Controversy

Fred Malek, White House special assistant during the Nixon Administration and later RN's Deputy Director of OMB, and also finance co-chairman of Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, was appointed last month by Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell to head a...

Trivial Pursuit and the Nixon Era

Let's get out that familiar box with the elegant script on top, open it, and pick a card at random. The question reads: What was Canada's foremost cultural export of the 1980s? As hard as it may be to believe, the answer is not Michael J. Fox, but surely Trivial...