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Forty years ago, on 19 November 1969, RN welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to the White House at the beginning of what would be a significant few days in the history of US-Japanese relations. Typically, the meeting was the result of long planning and...

From AP: President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon's playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty.  In Nixon's case, he pronounced cult...

37: February 1972 44: November 2009. The White House ID for downloading this photo is "hero_greatwall_LJ-01-60"

The Politico has a clip of RN appearing to bow to Mao.  Jim Pinkerton comments: “This footage, at 1:24, of Nixon's bow was not at all a bow, as Obama bowed. Nixon clearly just shook his hand, and then bowed as someone was obviously paying him a compliment. Much...

On the shoulders of giants: President Obama at his town meeting in Shanghai.* In his speech today, at his town meeting at Shanghai's Fudan University, President Obama acknowledged the role ---if not the name--- of his Pacific Rim presidential predecessor who, after...

The new issue of the New York Review of Books has a short op-ed, which first appeared as a blogpost last week at the magazine's site, by Garry Wills, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and author of several dozen books about religion and American history....

Ron Howard's acclaimed film Frost/Nixon, based on Peter Morgan's play which was a hit in London's West End and on Broadway, depicts two men as the architects of the famous set of TV interviews with President Nixon: the future Sir David Frost and the future Baron John...

In Tokyo today, President Obama said: "As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world." The president was in error.  Though he was apparently referring...

Last week I wrote about a retired Atlantic City firefighter named Richard Nixon, whom the New York Times's website had profiled in a series about everyday Americans with Presidential names. Today's post is about the Richard Nixon who lived on the opposite side of the...