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Nixon and “The Kennedy Promise”
In a recent post I related an anecdote featuring the late Anglo-American journalist Henry Fairlie and referred to the collection of his essays, Bite The Hand That Feeds You, edited by Newsweek's Jeremy McCarter and published by Yale University Press this month. Here...
Vice President Nixon’s ‘Forgotten’ Trip to Ceylon
Vice President Richard Nixon arrives in Ceylon, Sri Lanka in October 1953. In October 1953, Vice President Richard Nixon embarked on a precedent-setting tour of the countries of South and South East Asia. The newly elected Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower,...
Raising The Curtain For Nixon’s Granddaughter
Jennie Eisenhower, the actress who is the great-granddaughter of the 34th President and granddaughter of the 37th (and the daughter of David and Julie Eisehower), is the subject of an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by that paper's theater critic Howard Shapiro....
Laughing Matters
On Wednesday night's broadcast of the Colbert Report from Camp Victory in Baghdad, Steven Colbert interviewed Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh. The Deputy PM's academic training was in the UK; he spent some time in Washington as spokesman for the Patriotic...
The Hard Irony of High Expectations
Here's a troubling and intriguing story that might otherwise have been buried on the back pages, little noticed, and soon forgotten. But these are the still the early days of an administration that both claims and proclaims the moral high ground, so this apparently...
Leaderless
There has been a great deal of talk that the GOP lacks a "main person" who speaks for it. (Google the words "leaderless" and "Republican" and you get more than 30,000 hits.) Whatever the party's troubles, the lack of a "main person" is not one of them. The United...
Caesar Salad With A Kaiser Roll
Lebisch: Rabbi! May I ask you a question?Rabbi: Certainly, Lebisch! Lebisch: Is there a proper blessing... for the Tsar? Rabbi: A blessing for the Tsar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Tsar... far away from us! Why is it that so many Americans are enamored of...
6.12.71
Happy Anniversary to Tricia and Ed.
The Gray Folks At The Gray Lady
The poobahs at One Times Square were understandably wary when the Daily Show's Jason Jones came a-calling. But even taking that into account they seem every bit as bland, bleached, and beached, as their daily product.
Lunch With Bob Woodward
A few days ago Edward Luce, the Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times, treated the readers of that eminent newspaper to an account of his lunch with Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward at the Hay-Adams Hotel in DC. (The menu and price of the meal are...