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How RN Saved The Peace Corps
In 1961, President Kennedy started the Peace Corps from an ambitious idea and a Marshall redux of sorts, an all- American volunteer program with three simple goals: 1) to help people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, 2) to help...
Pat Nixon And The Golden Age Of The White House
White House renovator: First Lady Pat Nixon pictured with curator Clement Conger, daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower, designer David Richmond Byers III (left, from left to right), and architect Edward Vason Jones (right) in the Green Room in 1971. Much has been written...
Laughing Matters
Saturday Night Live's cold open did not go unnoticed on the Sunday morning talk shows --- providing the basis of this week's discussion about whether and/or how much the bloom is off the rose. Like Darrell Hammond with Bill Clinton and Will Ferrell with W ---and last...
A Milestone For The White House Fellowships
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that founded the White House Fellows program. The Fellowships's White House website describes the program's origins: Declaring that "a genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society," President Lyndon B....
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The Powers That Be: the President and Mrs. Obama with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley making their unsuccessful pitch for the '16 Olympics. The Obamas' journey to Copenhagen has produced a narrative more suited to Hans Christian Andersen than to David Axelrod. The...
Laughing Matters
I usually don't find imitation Top Ten Lists very funny --- but here's a tip o'the cap to Rich Lowry for the one he emailed to "The Corner" at NRO earlier today: Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics 10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings 9. Obama...
The Statue In Yorba Linda
"Leader's Exhibit:" A statue of Mao ZeDong is featured with the bronze likenesses of nine other world leaders during RN's presidency at the Nixon Library. Today, as is noted elsewhere at TNN, the People's Republic of China celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. The day...
China At Sixty
China celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding today. The massive military parade, propaganda films and genuine outpouring of pride by the Chinese people are befitting China’s growing clout and influence. I can not forget sitting up at midnight on July 1, 1997...
It’s A Family Affair
The New York Times continues to chronicle the election of Ed Cox as the Chairman of the New York State Republican Party. That was unanimously accomplished this morning at a meeting in Albany. The Nixon family took center stage at the state Republican Party’s...
Sixty-Five Cents That Changed A Life
Victoria Moran is the author of a number of successful books on self-help and spirituality published by Harper and several other major imprints, and has appeared twice on Oprah Winfrey's show. In 1976 she was a writer for a local magazine in her hometown of Kansas...