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At the hybrid of online newspaper and blog that is www.examiner.com, Rudolf Okonkwo, urges President Obama to "be steadfast" when confronting his opponents, and, to illustrate that point, quotes another President: What I want you always remember is Richard Nixon’s...

In tomorrow's Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten devotes his weekly humor column to a departed politician - but not Sen. Ted Kennedy.  Instead, Weingarten spends several hundred words examining a long-forgotten book titled The Wit & Humor Of Richard Nixon,...

I agree with nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker more often than not. Her column today, Can the GOP Speak to Blacks?, makes some excellent points about why the Republican Party has failed to attract support from African-American voters over the past 45...

In 1868, Benjamin Disraeli, upon achieving the office of British Prime Minister, at the age of 63 and thirty-one years after first winning election to the House of Commons, said: "I have reached the top of the greasy pole." Disraeli was much admired by Richard Nixon...

I never thought I’d live to see the day when I would recommend one of Paul Krugman’s opinion columns in the New York Times as a “must see” for readers of The New Nixon. That day has come (actually, it came yesterday, but I was on deadline on a speech, so I’m a day...

World War II began seventy years ago today.  After the initial German victories there would be some months of phony war before Europe really engaged; and it would take a couple of years before we entered; but today is when it began. W. H. Auden famously lamented the...

Here's the best ---you can forget the rest --- from Paul Krugman's column in today's New York Times: ...it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s proposal, even though Democrats...

Today's San Jose Mercury-News has an editorial that begins by pointing out some similarities between the national health-care program advocated in the early 1970s by President Nixon, and the one that President Obama is now trying to get through Congress. The editorial...

The fortieth anniversary of "three days of peace, love and music" on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, continues to be celebrated, most recently in movie theaters this weekend when Taking Woodstock, the new film by Cold Mountain and Incredible Hulk director Ang...

From reading press accounts of Senator Kennedy's legislative career, one might think that RN's 1971 launch of the War on Cancer was simply a response to Kennedy's initiatives.  Indeed, their political rivalry did play a role.  In politics, as in the marketplace,...