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Obama/Edwards: The Ticket That Never Was
In recent months little has been heard about the scandal that forced former Senator (and 2004 Democratic vice-presidential candidate) John Edwards from political life. A grand jury in North Carolina is now hearing testimony regarding the question of whether funds...
Will Mr. Obama Seize His Big Mac Moment?
This Tuesday, Barack Obama will travel to the United States Military Academy at West Point to deliver the most important address of his young presidency. He has obviously chosen the site for the speech with great care and in the hope that the backdrop – a storied...
The Pardon In The Rose Garden
President Obama's pardon yesterday of a turkey named Courage was the latest exercise of a clemency that may (or may not) have first been extended by President Truman in 1947. Because it's Thanksgiving and children may be reading ---and because the l-tryptophan is...
November 1969 — Giving Thanks
A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 --- their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 ---their first year in the White House--- the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any families from nineteen DC area old age homes to join them at...
Forty Years Ago: Thanksgiving Proclaimed
Proclamation 3944 - Thanksgiving Day, 1969 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of...
This Thanksgiving, Please Pass The Brisket
(This article was written for The New Nixon last Thanksgiving. Recently, the editor of The Jewish Press, "America's Largest Independent Jewish Weekly," asked permission to use it in the print and on line editions of that paper in the days before Thanksgiving this...
Palin and Nixon
At Air America and The Huffington Post, Mark Green compares Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon. He notes an obvious difference: RN "was vastly more experienced and sophisticated." He has a point, but one could make the same point about most other political figures,...
Everybody Knows The Bird Is The Word
A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street. (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, and a year later --- on 12...
RN, A Man Before His Time On Healthcare
During his second term, RN made expanding health coverage to all Americans a centerpiece of his domestic agenda. “If the Government pays all the medical bills, then only the Government has a stake in holding down medical costs. This means that Government officials...
The Pink Lady Revisited
The Beauty in the Beast: The Daily Beast's choice of illustrations hints at the hatchet job that follows in the excerpt from Sally Denton's new book about the 1950 California Senate Race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. The Daily Beast is offering an...