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The Morris Spin
Roger Morris has an interesting take on RNs character in the latest and last addition of the 100 days blog on the New York Times; a blog that compares President Obama's first 100 days with other modern presidents. In reading Morris's stuff, I've always wondered two...
Don’t Forget The Cheeseburgers
The lineup for next season's Brinker International Forum series at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts has been announced. Most of it is not especially out of the ordinary: Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Swank, Lisa Ling (formerly of The View). But the final event, on...
Man’s Best Friend (But Don’t Dig Up The Rose Garden)
Barry H. Landau, who was Assistant Chief of Protocol in the Ford White House, is a longtime student and historian of the Presidency who, in the last half-century, has met almost every pet kept at the White House. In this Associated Press article (from the Fort Collins...
RN’s First Hundred Days
20 January 1969: RN and PN in the Inaugural Parade after the swearing in at the Capitol. H. R. Haldeman noted in his Diary: "Expression on his face was unforgettable, this was his time! He had arrived, he was in full command, someone said he felt he saw rays...
RN Call Home
The headline in the Daily Telegraph was intriguing --- "Are UFO's real? Famous people who believed" --- and the sub-head was promising --- The former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has claimed that aliens exist and their visits are being covered up by the United...
The Airport To Nowhere
CNN has finally caught up with Carol D. Leonnig's story in Sunday's WaPo about the egregious porkfest that is the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video"...
Richard Nixon Helps The First “Millionaire”
Who wants to be a millionaire (First $1,000,000 winner)
9 JANUARY 1913 – 22 APRIL 1994
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
Michael Barone Reviews Nixonland
Rick Perlstein's Nixonland came out in paperback last week, a month after his study of Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign, Before The Storm, was reissued by Nation Books. And, as it happens, the Claremont Institute's website has just put up the review of Nixonland by...
A Look Back At RN’s 1969 European Visit
Roger Morris, who was a National Security Council staffer in 1969 and 1970, and who later published a massive study of Richard Nixon's career up to 1952, made two more contributions this week to "100 Days," the group blog in which historians compare events that took...