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Nixon Went To Cairo First
President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University Thursday. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...
Two Quotes
“Former President Lyndon B. Johnson acknowledges that Richard Nixon, as a Republican President, has been able to accomplish some things that a Democratic President could not have… “‘Can’t you just see the uproar,’ he asked during a recent interview, ‘if I had been...
Mr. Reagan And The Boys
It was in the papers, but covered far from sufficiently, when Elisha “Ray” Nance died six weeks ago at the age of 94. He was well known around Bedford, Virginia, a picturesque town located at the feet of the Blue Ridge Peaks of Otter, where for years he delivered the...
Annals Of The Obama Administration
On Wednesday afternoon, while POTUS was entering Saudi air space, FLOTUS 44 was entertaining FLOTUS 40 to luncheon in the Family Quarters. The meal ---at which the two met for the first time--- was served on the colorful (and once controversially costly) Reagan...
Koko Taylor 1935 – 2009
Koko Taylor was born Cora Walton on a farm outside of Memphis. The phenomenal singer died yesterday in a hospital in her home town of Chicago as a result of complications following surgery on 19 May. She was 80, and she was known around the world as "The Queen of...
Due Deference
Compare and contrast the following: EXHIBIT A: BRIAN WILLIAMS AND POTUS 29 MAY 2009 EXHIBIT B: POTUS AND KING ABDULLAH 1 APRIL 2009 What's going on --- the most common denominator of the observed phenomena:
Ed Gray’s Reply To Robert M. Smith
Last week in TNN I discussed the American Journalism Review article by former New York Times reporter Robert M. Smith in which he described a lunch he had in August 1972 with L. Patrick Gray in which (Smith now says) the acting FBI director conveyed by wordless facial...
A Nixon Speaks On North Korea’s Nukes
Christopher Nixon Cox, the 37th President's grandson who gained prominence last year as the New York executive director of the McCain campaign, explains at Fox News's website why he thinks North Korea's recent saber-rattling is primarily the result of internal...
Art Imitates Life
The image has become iconic. The group photograph of the 1945 Yalta Conference in February 1945: the unhappily marginalized WSC, the ailing, failing FDR, and the grumpy Uncle Joe greedily counting the chickens he was about to hatch. The scene will be recreated in the...
Stanley Kutler On The Sotomayor Choice
At the Huffington Post Stanley I. Kutler, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, discusses President Obama's selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Professor Kutler, who was the subject of some TNN posts last year concerning challenges...