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In the Times of London, Daniel Finkelstein writes: There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give...

Thirty-eight years ago today, the White House asked the three networks to clear space in prime time for an important message from the President. The request appeared to come out of the blue, and there was widespread speculation regarding his intentions ---would he be...

Herb Klein, one of RN’s oldest friends, supporters, and colleagues, died at home in La Jolla on 2 July.  He was 91.  He will be remembered this morning at a memorial service on the flight deck of the USS Midway in San Diego Harbor. Herb’s last years were marked by the...

In The New York Times, Adam Nagourney writes: Political comebacks tend to come in two forms. The first is when a party stumbles back into power because of the mistakes by the other side. A classic instance came in 1976, when Watergate enabled Jimmy Carter to win the...

On November 11, 1962, five days after Richard Nixon told an audience of reporters that "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference," ABC News aired a thirty-minute TV special titled The Political Obituary Of...

No, not those tapes. A little over two weeks ago I posted about one of the webpages of the groundbreaking and very informative nixontapes.org site run by Luke Nichter, an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State University in Texas. This page, at the time I...

38 years ago this week, President Nixon stunned the world when he announced that he would visit Communist China. Today, President Obama was supposed to meet President Hu Jintao in Italy, but that meeting was canceled at the last moment – but no one is worried about...

Camille Paglia is back on Salon with one of her letter-answering columns. Always 100% quotable and at least 90% right regarding about 95% of what she says, she pins down the Palin problem --- and describes the solution. (In doing so, she reflects the wisdom expressed...

Whenever new documents (or in the case of RN – tapes and documents are released), it is an opportunity to reassess a subject.  Or at the very least, provide some nuance into the subject.  Probably the best opportunity we have for this continuing process of discovering...

Robert Strange McNamara died yesterday at his home in Washington.  He was 93. The former Harvard professor , Army vet, Legion of Merit recipient, and Ford Motors wunderkind served as America's eighth Secretary of Defense, from 1961-1968, under Presidents Kennedy and...