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President Obama mentioned RN in his Nobel acceptance speech.  Michael Goodwin of the New York Post perceptively notes what the president left out: "In light of the Cultural Revolution's horrors, [Richard] Nixon's meeting with Mao appeared inexcusable -- and yet it...

One legacy of the Nixon Administration that has never ceased to enjoy widespread popularity in America is the tradition of "panda diplomacy," in which the People's Republic of China sends giant pandas to the National Zoo, to the delight of visitors of all ages. This...

The #1 Fan in the 1950s: Vice President Nixon tosses a ball around in his Capitol Office. Several recent TNN posts (here, here, and here) have presented RN as a serious football fan.  In fact, that puts the case mildly; he was the kind of enthusiast who puts the "fan"...

Word came from Los Angeles this evening of the death yesterday of actor Gene Barry at the age of 90. Barry's career was a very long one - he made his Broadway debut in 1942 - and highly varied. In 1944, he performed opposite Mae West in her show Catherine Was Great. A...

Forty years ago today, on 9 December 1969, President Nixon flew to New York to receive the National Football Foundation's Gold Medal and to deliver a speech that was truly a labor of love. He was the guest of honor at the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame...

Barry Blitt's cover for this week's New Yorker:

The Chattanooga, Tennessee Times-Free Press has an article by Adam Crisp this week about Dr. George Akers, a retired resident of the Volunteer State who spent his career as an educator in Adventist-affiliated universities. In 1970, he was the president of what was...

Most congenial: Good friend and Whittier classmate Hubert Perry says that RN might have not been the most talented player on the college football team, but he was the most popular. In recent times, Neal Gabler’s penchant for originality has seemed to atrophy. His...

Be there or be square: Unless you were POTUS you needed one of these on 6 December 1969. Forty years ago today, RN flew on Air Force One to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then boarded Marine One for the hop to the parking lot at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, to watch...

At the Huffington Post, Tom Shachtman writes: Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney in a recent interview with Politico labeled President Barack Obama's drawn-out process of deciding on a troop surge for Afghanistan as projecting "weakness," and charged that this...