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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...

When Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as the United Kingdom's Prime Minister just a few years ago, he enjoyed an somewhat extended honeymoon with the British press and public. There was some degree of sympathy for the Scottish politician because it was well-known why...

This November, Michael Sheen, whose performance as David Frost in Frost/Nixon impressed critics and audiences both onstage and on film, will undertake a somewhat different part - the leader of the Volturi vampire clan in New Moon, the sequel to the massive box-office...

  Ever since Easter Monday 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to children for an egg roll, the White House has observed this springtime tradition. The Washington Times' Mark Silva reported on plans for this year's event: Now they've thought...

  The President and First Lady leave St. John's Church after Easter Sunday services this morning. The First Family attended Easter Sunday services at St. John's Episcopal Church ---"the President's ---and Presidents'--- church"--- just across the street (and over...

 Bo, the FPOTUS (First Pooch Of The United States), is clearly going to thrive in Washington --- he already has his own White House website. The hypoallergenic puppy is already a savvy pol --- having covered bases from the Kennedys to the animal shelter advocates (via...

Last month I wrote about a recent appearance that Ed Nixon, the younger brother of the 37th President, made to promote his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait, during which he described how the sight of Meteor Crater in Arizona, in the course of a trip he made with...

At the website of the magazine Foreign Policy, David J. Rothkopf, a Washington-based consultant and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written about "Five Books That Haven't Been Written Yet" (but, he continues, "ought to be")....

My wife and I have five wonderful grandchildren – four boys and a girl. We await the arrival of another grandson in a few weeks. Dealing with our children’s children is vastly different than what it was like raising our own – especially in the area of discipline. As...

This week, unsurprisingly given the area's strongly liberal electorate, Cook County (Illinois) Commissioner Mike Quigley defeated GOP nominee Rosanna Pulido, by a 69-to-24 percent difference, and was elected to the Fifth Congressional District seat that Rahm Emanuel...