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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...

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...

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...

Four score and seven years ago tomorrow ---on 30 May 1922--- the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.   As the Memorial's website notes: President Lincoln’s only surviving son was a special guest at the May 30, 1922 dedication ceremony for the Lincoln Memorial, receiving...

For many years I had a degree of respect ---a minimal degree and a reluctant respect to be sure--- for Richard Ben-Veniste.  This was partly because he had dated Mary Travers (although that may have merited props more than respect); and partly because, although I felt...

Last night Ed Nixon, the last survivor (and youngest) of the five brothers that included the 37th President, spoke to a meeting of the Spartanburg County (South Carolina) Republican Party about his new book, The Nixons: A Family Portrait. (The audience included...

It's been four days since an article by Richard Pérez-Peña in the New York Times told the story of how Robert M. Smith, a reporter in that paper's Washington bureau, learned from FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray in late August of 1972 something about the larger...

Over at Salon today Carina Chocano writes about “the magical moneymaking properties of humiliating self-exposure.”  Her cases in point are last night’s ratings grabber season opener of John & Kate Plus 8, and Elizabeth Edwards’ recent, unfortunate, Resilience....

UC Davis history professor Ari Kelman has written a long and interesting review article for the latest TLS, surveying four recent books about Abraham Lincoln. He makes a particularly compelling case for Looking for Lincoln: The making of an American icon, by the...

  The tradition of a day of remembrance for those who died on both sides in the Civil War ---known as Decoration Day--- began in the late 1860s.  In 1882 the name was changed to Memorial Day and the fallen of other wars were also honored.  In 1971 President Nixon...