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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...

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...

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...

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...

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: