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12.25.09
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'Twas the night before Christmas: this photograph of PN (holding Checkers), six-year-old Tricia, four-year-old Julie, and the thirty-eight year old Vice President- Elect was actually taken on 20 December at their home in Washington.
Time’s Man (Whoops, Person) Of All Time
Tonight, Diane Sawyer, former aide in the Nixon White House who also was an editorial assistant for RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, made her debut as anchor of ABC's World News Tonight. She did not get around to mentioning her old boss. But over at NBC Nightly News,...
Oral Roberts 1918 – 2009
Oral Robert died last week. His death was widely noted, but most of the obituaries either overlooked or underestimated the importance of his life and career and his major impact on American religion and life. Many reflected the ridicule that resulted from his claim...
The Watergate Hotel Back In The News
In July I wrote here about the uncertain status of the Watergate Hotel, best remembered, of course, for the break-in that ultimately brought about the end of Richard Nixon's presidency. At that time, the hotel had been put up for auction by Deutsche Bank, after...
Transition At ABC News
Last week, Diane Sawyer, onetime aide to President Nixon in the White House and, after his resignation, at San Clemente, concluded her decade-long run as anchor of ABC's Good Morning America; in rather symmerical fashion, she was replaced on Monday by George...
A Dream Ticket
Almost every pro football fan over the age of, say, 50 - and a good number younger than that - knows about the NFL championship game in Yankee Stadium on December 28, 1958, in which the seemingly invincible New York Giants, led by Frank Gifford, was upset by Johnny...
RN and Day Care
In The New York Times, Gail Collins writes: Back in 1971, Congress passed a bill aimed at providing high-quality early childhood education and after-school programs for any American family that wanted them. It was bipartisan, which in those days meant more than a...
The Little Church In The East Room
As the first streaks of dawn quietly announced the arrival of morning on Sunday, November 16, 1969, a 35-year old preacher from Ohio named Harold Rawlings had already been awake for a while after a fitful night of what-could-barely-be-called sleep in a room at...
History And President Obama’s Oslo Imprimatur
In President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech last Thursday, he cited President Nixon's trip to China as an example of a bold and controversial action by a leader that furthered the cause of peace: In light of the Cultural Revolution's horrors, Nixon's meeting...