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A Canadian View Of David Frum

Part of the political fallout resulting from the recently passed health-care legislation has been the alienation of David Frum from the conservative movement. Frum is a 49-year-old native of Toronto who, in the twenty-odd years since settling in New York after...

3.29.1974

Thirty-Six years ago today, RN commemorated the first anniversary of the last troop's return home from Vietnam, now known as Vietnam Veterans Day. Below are the Thirty-Seventh President's remarks: Just one year ago, the last American combat serviceman returned to the...

Got A Condo Made O’Stone-a

Last night I read Born Standing Up, actor Steve Martin's account of the seventeen years he spent making his way up the ladder of standup comedy. It's a rather worthwhile book. In well-written prose, replete with many funny passages, Martin describes the process by...

3.24.70

Forty years ago today, RN issued a Statement About Desegregation of Elementary and Secondary Schools. The almost 17,000-word document surveyed the the issue beginning with the first Brown decision in 1954. Clearly, and in very plain language, the President surveyed...

The Missing Moon Rocks

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 number...