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Robert Mosbacher 1927 – 2010
Robert Mosbacher spearheaded the North American Free Trade Agreement as President George H.W. Bush's first Commerce Secretary. Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher died on Sunday. He was 83. After growing up and attending college in the Northeast, he joined...
Nixon in the Navy
A post at the left-wing Common Dreams rails against President Obama for not being liberal enough. It says of the Democratic Party: "It's the same party that could run a decorated combat hero against a war evader in 1972, only to be successfully labeled as national...
State of the Union
Today's Washington Post digs into oral histories to find speechwriters' reflections on the State of the Union. From RN speechwriter Lee Huebner: I think it's a schizophrenic speech. On the one hand, it's an administrative tool, it's a way of managing the government ....
Watch The Domestic Council Live On C-SPAN 3
Update 11/26/2010, 9:11 pm PST: A permanent video of the Domestic Policy forum is now available at C-SPAN.org. The first of a year-long series of Richard Nixon Legacy forums, The Domestic Policy Initiatives of the Nixon Years is now on C-SPAN 3 and streaming live...
Another View of RN At The 1959 NFL Championship Game
Last month I posted about a Baltimore Sun article reminiscing about the 1959 NFL championship game, in which the Baltimore Colts, playing on their home turf at Memorial Stadium, bested the New York Giants 31-16, one year after the Colts's spectacular defeat of the...
Lee Huebner On The State Of The Union Addresses
The Washington Post has an article in which White House speechwriters, going back four decades, talk about the way in which Presidents have approached the annual State Of The Union address before Congress. In it, Lee Huebner of George Washington University's School of...
“Nixon In China” On Bowie’s iPod
Over in the UK, the Guardian has a short article by David Bowie in which the onetime Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke describes some of the contents of his iPod. His selections, as is usually the case with him, are eclectic, ranging from current rock bands to...
A Time For Tempered Temper?
In case you haven’t heard, this just in—Americans are angry. In fact, many are mad as hell, and they apparently aren’t going to take “it” anymore. Whatever “it” is, it is certainly not good news for current elected officials, no matter what the party affiliation...
Remembering Rose Woods
Rose Mary Woods died five years ago today, on 22 January 2005. "Those who didn’t know her might think her life was all about a gap on a tape. How wrong they would be." Rose Mary Woods at her desk in her office in the West Wing in 1974. She was born in Sebring,...
1.22.70
Forty years ago today ---on 22 January 1970--- RN delivered his first State of the Union Message to a Joint Session of Congress. The year before, the outgoing, diminished LBJ had delivered an elegiac, wistful SOTU describing what might have been and how he hoped he...