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Laughing Matters
The bad news is that both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have, over the last few months, decisively jumped the shark. Maybe they changed writers; or maybe the old writers just ran out of snark and irony and steam, and decided that polemics were as funny as...
And That’s The Way It Was, March 22, 1935
The late Walter Cronkite learned the craft of journalism working for his high school paper in Houston and later for the Daily Texan at the University of Texas in Austin. One day in late March of 1935, he was sent to interview a visiting writer who was to speak at Hogg...
Buchanan Discusses The Nixon Comeback
The former RN staffer makes some interesting insights into RNs comeback in 1966-1968, as part of a comparison between RN and the former governor of Alaska. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Uncovering the Nixonian Holy Grail
From "Mother Jones", there seems to be a new attempt afoot to find out what was on the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap on the tapes. Not from the tapes, but Haldeman's notes during the meeting.
One Pill Makes Your Larger. One Pill…..
If the middle name on the President's birth certificate turns out to be "Morpheus" --- be afraid, be very afraid. (As originally seen on The Colbert Report.)
Annals Of The Obama Administration
More On The Ticket That Never Was
Today's Washington Post has an article by Frank Mankiewicz in which the political director of the 1972 McGovern campaign goes into more detail about the notion he toyed with in the hours after his candidate received the nomination one sweltering summer night in Miami...
Flush Times At The Watergate
This week, the Watergate Hotel went up for auction and, despite its enduring notoriety as the site of the June 1972 break-in that ultimately brought down Richard Nixon's presidency, found no takers - at least for the moment. (The development corporation that owned the...
7.24.59
Здравствуйте!: RN and PN arrive in Moscow for what would be a tense and historic trip. Photograph by Howard Sochurek for Life magazine. Fifty years ago today, Bill Safire knocked down a barrier and shouted to RN's military aide Don Hughes: "This way to the...
The Diplomate
In the Soviet Union in 1959, as on all of RN's Vice Presidential diplomatic trips abroad beginning in 1953, PN continued to break ground by pursuing her own independent and substantive schedule. Her work was recognized by Life magazine with its 10 August cover....