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During my visit to the Nixon Library in September, Sandy Quinn peppered our conversation with various expressions that all basically said the same thing: "You really need to talk to Frank Gannon." Since then I have dialogued with Frank via email, punctuated by the...

"Man's God leans toward order, God's Man leans toward chaos, and the tension in that eternal tug-of-war generates the energy of freedom" ---William Safire From The First Dissident: The Book of Job In Today's Politics ----- and printed in the program for Friday's...

Today, California Flag, a five-year-old gelding, won the Turf Spring race in Santa Anita's racetrack. The race is one of several that constitute the Breeders' Cup, the event that, while not as well known to the general public as the Triple Crown races, is considered...

1972 Bumper Sticker Since “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” came out during my senior year of high school at Los Alamitos High in Southern California; Edmund Morris has always been an idol of mine.  His clear, three dimensional writing on the twenty-sixth president...

There's good news for everyone who, after an evening spent watching Dan Aykroyd or David Frye in the 1970s, would turn to their friends and say, "OK, wanna see a real Nixon impression?" The Playhouse on the Square in Memphis is taking on Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon as...

Between 1969 and 1974, when there was nothing especially urgent to report, newspapers used to routinely publish articles about ten-year-old Little Leaguers or 95-year-old nursing home residents or 38-year-old insurance salesmen named Richard Nixon, which would...

Last week I wrote of Max Holland's highly interesting article in this month's Washingtonian magazine concerning the unnamed lawyer connected with the Washington Post who (according to H.R. Haldeman in a conversation with RN on Oct. 19, 1972) had told a friend at the...

This past week saw the 40th anniversary of the "Silent Majority" speech -- a reminder that RN had a couple of advantages that President Obama lacks. The first, as a commenter on an earlier post shrewdly suggested, is that RN had a captive audience when he addressed...

Just as Nixon was considered the only president who could open diplomatic relations with China, Clinton was the only one who could bestow upon Nixon the kind of public credibility he so desired. ---Monica Crowley “Nixon in Winter” (1998) In my library, I try to keep...