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Sunday is Father's Day, and this year marks a century since Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, came up with the idea of making it a permanent holiday. There had been a commemoration of American fatherhood on July 5, 1908, at a church in Fairmont, West Virginia,...

In April of 1979, a week or so after the nuclear-near-disaster at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday Night Live did a sketch featuring Dan Akroyd as President Jimmy Carter. Playing on the idea that Carter had a background in engineering and...

Shortly after becoming director of the Nixon Library in 2007, Dr. Timothy Naftali invited the nation’s press in to witness the removal of the Nixon Library’s Watergate exhibit. Declaring, “I can’t run a shrine,” he gleefully presided over the destruction of the...

Tonight, former Nixon White House counsel Luke W. - I mean, John W. Dean III appeared at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. Speaking before an audience of close to 300, according to Melody Chiu of the Orange County Register, he contended...

John Dean has lived a charmed life. His rise from an educationally unprepossessing background and a brief and dubious legal career to the office of White House Counsel (1970-1973) was such an extreme example of the Peter Principle that it should have been renamed the...

Tomorrow, June 17, is the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Watergate break-in. At the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, it will be marked by a lecture and book-signing by John W. Dean III, counsel to the President from 1970 until 1973,...

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 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,...

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....

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...