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Loose Lips Sink a Presidency
Read how overhearing a lunch conversation could have broken the Watergate story, kept Woodward and Bernstein cub reporters, and allowed Deep Throat to be only a bad skin flick.
Susan Jacoby’s Notes From The Middle Ground
Yesterday David Chambers, whose grandfather Whittaker Chambers was one of the two primary figures in the case that brought Richard Nixon to the notice of the whole nation and then the world, reviewed Susan Jacoby's Alger Hiss And The Battle For History in the...
Wabash Wonk Revitalizes Republicans
In today's installment of his WaPo column "The Fix," Chris Cillizza profiles Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels: "Republican Revolutionary." The good news is: the profile is interesting and instructive. The bad news is: Daniels has foresworn any further political...
Precedents For The Huntsman Appointment
Yesterday Christopher Beam of Slate discussed some historical precedents for the action that President Obama took in recent days when he appointed Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah, a prospective candidate for the GOP's presidential spot in 2012, as Ambassador to China. Beam...
Frost/Nixon: The Supporting Players Speak
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...
Presidents And Popularity
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...
Cue “Victory At Sea”
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...
Caldera Should Never Have Had His Authority
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...
Laughing Matters
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...
Annals Of The Obama Administration
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...