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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...

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...

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,...

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...

The former President of the American Cancer Society, Dr. Alva Hamblin Letton died last week at the age of 93. He was present and gave remarks at President Nixon's signing of the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971. Dr. James Cavanaugh spoke about RN's early...

Activist and all around divisive figure Earl Ofari Hutchinson offers readers his latest tirade at the HuffPo: On the campaign trail in 1968, Nixon lambasted his Democratic opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, for the failed Great Society programs and big...

This article is Part II of a series on how RN received the news. Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages - in spite of constant efforts to keep them...

In the palmy days of a year ago, when, as every comics collector knows, President Obama was expected to personally assist Spiderman and other superheroes along with his usual duties, one of his superpowers, according to our best and brightest liberal pundits, was...

"Picture Of Nixon And Elvis Worth A Thousand Words," reads the headline in this morning's Los Angeles Times, and, sure enough, the article by Faye Fiore, the paper's Washington reporter, that appears below it spends about a thousand words (or more) describing the...