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William Safire 1929-2009
The nation is the poorer for Bill Safire’s passing. As a columnist, commentator, and author, he enlightened and enlivened the public square for four decades. And the extended Nixon Family is shocked and saddened by the loss of a brilliant thinker and writer, a witty...
Edward Cox To Be New York State GOP Chairman
The New York Times' Danny Hakim has written an interesting and timely profile of Ed Cox. Accompanying the article is a slide show of several photographs, beginning with Mr. Cox's wedding to Tricia Nixon in the White House Rose Garden in June 1971, through his current...
Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be
Rule of Thumb #1 for President Obama: When Howard Fineman starts looking fondly back to the Reagan administration, you know you're in trouble. Members of Obama's own party know who Obama is not; they still sometimes wonder who he really is. In Washington, the...
Looking Forward
In today's New York Times, Mark Leibovich offers up an interesting ---and even relatively objective--- profile of Liz Cheney based on a speech she gave in Nashville earlier this month. Perhaps if Mr. Leibovich read TNN more attentively, he wouldn't be coming so late...
William Safire RIP
The New York Times website is reporting that William Safire, longtime columnist for the newspaper, one of Richard Nixon's two leading speechwriters (with Ray Price) during the President's first term, and, in 1959, an eyewitness to the Kitchen Debate in Moscow, has...
Alger And Priscilla Hiss, 2009 Model
In early June of this year readers of Washington's two dailies woke up to the news of the arrest of a much-liked, sophisticated, rather affluent local couple. W[alter] Kendall Myers, when FBI agents put the cuffs on him, was 72 years old; a great-grandson of Alexander...
9.26.60
Forty-nine years ago tonight ---on Monday 26 September 1960--- the first televised debate ever held between presidential candidates was broadcast coast-to-coast. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy faced off in the studios of...
A Career That Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
Three months ago I wrote a post about a Philadelphia newspaper's profile of Jennie Eisenhower, President Nixon's granddaughter whose stage career has taken her to theaters around the country. Starting on Wednesday, and continuing until November 1, she can be seen in...
A Community Organizer Takes On The World
President Barack Obama’s visit to the United Nations this past week, complete with a major address and some quality time with a gavel, was yet another step in the process of seizing a much sought after role. For decades, U.S. presidents have routinely been referred to...
The Blast From The Past
Ben Smith recycled Alexander Burns' reporting, but Wonkette said it best: So Barack Obama wanted to get rid of Joe Biden for the day and settled on sending him to Georgia, to say “hi” to the flood victims down there. Immediately after arriving, Joe Biden addressed the...