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But Where’s The Silent E?
"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.
C-SPAN’s Video Library
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...
Nickels, Noses, And The Nation
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,...
Pelosi-land
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...
A President’s Time
On the day he was inaugurated to his second term, President Nixon gave members of the White House staff a desk diary covering the four years of that term. Each day indicated how many days were remaining before his “Four More Years” came to a close. On the cover page...
RN: The Law And Order Candidate
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 years because their views...
St. Patrick’s Day 1969
Gift exchange: Irish Ambassador to the United States William Fay pins a shamrock on RN's lapel, while RN presents to Fay a Waterford Crystal Vase with an etching of the White House. On St. Patrick's Day 1969, in a ceremony with Irish Ambassador to the United States...
Fox News: What Would Nixon Do On Health Care?
Fox News contributor Ellen Ratner at the Fox Forum: No one thought that President Nixon was a liberal in fact I spent much of my youthful years demonizing him and remember exactly where I was the day he resigned. I was cheering. However, like most of us humans, Nixon...
3.17.1969
RN's St. Patrick's Day message: IT HAS been said that on Saint Patrick's Day everyone is an Irishman. As one whose ancestors came to America from Ireland, I wish all the Irish--including those who are Irish for only today--a happy and memorable Saint Patrick's Day....
3.16.10
Pat Nixon was born ninety-eight years ago today, on 16 March 1912. My mother was born near midnight on March 16th, 1912, in a miner’s shack high in the mountains of eastern Nevada. Although it was almost spring the nights in the copper boom town of Ely were frosty,...