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Over the last six months we've heard quite a bit from the major players in the Frost/Nixon film - director Ron Howard, writer Peter Morgan, and stars Frank Langella and Michael Sheen - but it's been somewhat difficult to find interviews with the supporting cast...

In The New Republic, John Judis writes: Almost four months after his inauguration, President Barack Obama is still riding high in the polls. According to Gallup, 66 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing. But I expect that Obama's popularity will begin to...

There's been a lot of comment in the last 48 hours about former Vice President Dick Cheney's appearance on Face The Nation, and it was probably a matter of time before he was dubbed "the new Nixon" by someone. That someone turned out to be Phil Bronstein of the San...

As my esteemed colleague Frank Gannon mentioned Saturday, Director of The White House Military Office Louis Caldera resigned from his post Friday after the uproar caused by his office's decision to carry out an Air Force One photo-op above the New York City skyline...

The President's decision to adjourn his weekly White House luncheon with the Vice President to Ray's Hell Burger across the Potomac in Arlington, was reported and deconstructed with an intensity that finally struck even the media as a bit much. Here's the Daily Show's...

Here is the President's speech to the White House Correspondents' annual dinner at the Washington Hilton last night. He reads from a written text, and performs with the expected aplomb.  Some of his jokes are excellent; some are OK; a few are actually acerbic (and...

From Michiko Kakutani's review in yesterday's New York Times of Presidential Command, the new book by the late Peter W. Rodman of the Nixon Center: Mr. Rodman [argues] that Nixon, not Mr. Bush or Harry S. Truman, “deserves the title of the ‘decider,’ ” and that while...

Brigadoon in the Blue Ridge: the main street of the Shenandoah Valley town of Staunton, Virginia. If Staunton has a sister city, it must be Brigadoon. Who knew that a small burnished gem was hidden quietly away in the Blue Ridge about two hours southwest of...

This afternoon, at a packed Washington National Cathedral, the funeral of all-star AFL quarterback, longtime New York congressman, 1996 Republican vice-presidential candidate, and dedicated economic and social trailblazer Jack Kemp was held. Originally it was planned...

The Real Thing: POW Alex Lees (right) in Stalag Luft III. "I only played a small part.  I did my bit, that's the main thing." If, like me, The Great Escape is in your pantheon of All Time Coolest Movies, you will be saddened to learn of the death of Alex Lees on 22...