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FLOTUS 37’S COIFFURE AND AMERICA’S HISTORY
Christina Cristoforou's interesting illustration on the op-ed page of today's New York Times places our forty-four first ladies' hair styles in historically cross-hatched perspective. PN is in the middle of the second row from the bottom. This reduction doesn't do...
Watch What We Do Not What We Say
The President held a Town Hall meeting in Annandale, Virginia, on Wednesday. The logistics were the subject of some controversy. Before: And after (per the WaPo): In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House...
Which Revolution?
In my opinion, the best part of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address on January 20, 1961, had nothing to do with asking anyone anything. The moment to remember was when he said: The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all...
RN, Apollo, And Obits
The Smoking Gun is featuring documents that the Nixon White House prepared before the Apollo 11 mission in the event that it ended in tragedy. Discover mutters that reading the plan "gives us the creepy feeling of reading the obituary of someone who is still alive." ...
The Washington Post, Disgraced
There are some alternate titles that came to mind as I prepared to write this, but since some of TNN's readers are employees of the Washington Post - some of very long standing indeed - I thought it best to go with the least abrasive one that I thought of. Even so,...
Newsweek: Dummies and Dummier
The new Newsweek's summer reading issue includes a feature called "Best. Books. Ever," in which well-known individuals recommend four of their favorite books in their particular areas of interest. Thus, Melissa Gilbert selects Hollywood memoirs, Dr. Drew chooses...
Journalism 101 With Bob Woodward
Youtube is setting up a kind of journalism school of the internet, featuring clips in which various eminences of the Fourth Estate attempt to explain their profession in the space of five or six minutes. The project is being undertaken with the cooperation of many of...
Where Was Hitchens In The Early Seventies?
Christopher Hitchens takes a look at the latest release of Nixon recordings at Slate. For the most part, his remarks about President Nixon, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Rev. Billy Graham are precisely what one would expect him to say - especially when he presents...
Superior
No one ever accused RN of perfection. Throughout his career, reporters and cartoonists dwelt on his mistakes, his quirks, even his physical flaws: recall Garry Wills's long, bizarre description of his face in Nixon Agonistes. As Eamon Javers wryly notes in Politico,...
Liddy, Hunt, And The Power Of Song
What are the citizens of Vermont doing, now that the United States is being remade along the lines most of them seem to favor, and they no longer have to plot to secede from the Union to join Canada? Well, tonight, and next Tuesday, some of them will be going to see a...