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Rocco Landesman, who was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by President Obama last May (as a replacement for Dana Gioia, the eminent poet who was its leader during the Bush administration), comes from an affluent and remarkable - make that...

This week Theodore "Ted" Sorensen, who was John F. Kennedy's closest aide from 1953 until the president's assassination a decade later, appeared at Canada's University of Western Ontario in London to speak about his career and to promote his recently published...

There has been quite a lot of coverage this week of President Obama's early-morning journey on Thursday to Dover Air Force Base to witness the arrival of the remains of eighteen American servicemen killed in Afghanistan, and to meet with their families. At her blog at...

During a recent visit to the Nixon Library, I had a discussion with several people about the potential for a podcast, something designed to highlight the events at the library, as well as the larger work of the Nixon Foundation. We determined to use the recent visit...

RN sometimes used bad language in private, but what Governor Schwarzenegger did recently was much worse. To get back at a legislator who had taunted him, he inserted an obscene acrostic into a veto message for one of the legislator's bills.  This act was not a sudden...

At 7 PM tonight in Yorba Linda, the Nixon Library will welcome Elvis Presley's friend and bodyguard Sonny West, who will talk about ---and sign copies of--- his book Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business. White House photographer Ollie Atkins captured a candid moment...

Forty years ago today, Time magazine asked a question that the President would answer definitively on 3 November.

Ever since President Obama's took the oath of office twice last January, he's been compared by pundits to every previous Chief Executive since Millard Fillmore or at least Chester Alan Arthur. For the last week the Nixon comparisons have flown hot and heavy; next week...

Late last week Alexander Cockburn, one of the elder statesmen of unreconstructed radical journalism, posted an article on his CounterPunch.com site in which he discussed President Obama's prospects of prevailing in his feud with Fox News. Unlike many more mainstream...