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While I'm probably a bit late to this party, the Frost/Nixon movie finally came to my small town of Pres-cut. (That's the way the natives say it around here. If you pronounce it Prescott, then people ask where you're from.) Walked away from the theater wondering how...

Political advance ---of which presidential advance is a subset--- is an art as well as a science.  It's not just important to move POTUS from point A to point B in the most efficient and secure way possible.  What he does when he reaches point B is, well, the whole...

Stephen L. Zetterberg, who ran against RN in 1948 to represent the 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. He was 92. His obituary appears in many papers today, among them The New York Times and...

Leon Panetta has come a long way since he was a maverick (and one man's maverick is another man's gadfly) in RN's Department of HEW. The Wall Street Journal has just posted an article online indicating that President Obama's nominee to head the CIA has been part of...

Eleven years and three days ago, when the nation was ten days into the trauma that was l'affaire [Monica] Lewinsky (or Lewinski, as the late Richard Grenier initially spelled her name in his Washington Times column), the personal attorney of the errant intern, William...

In his attack in today's Daily Beast on the critics of Stanley I. Kutler's book Abuse Of Power, John Dean informs the world that in the wake of the much-discussed New York Times article on the subject, he has decided that the time has come to republish his long...

Yesterday's Boston Globe had an amusing op-ed in which Alan Cox and Stacy Keach (the Frost and Nixon, respectively, of the touring production of Peter Morgan's play) and Bob Zelnick, the gray eminence of David Frost's researching team, discussed the play and its...

From 1986:

In 1968, February 2nd was a Friday --- the day, forty-one years ago, on which RN officially declared his candidacy for POTUS.   In RN, he wrote: "I began my second campaign for the presidency with a press conference on the afternoon of February 2, 1968, in the Holiday...

The New York Times site has just posted a very thought-provoking article (to appear in tomorrow's edition) about recent charges by several historians that Abuse Of Power, the 1997 volume of transcripts of White House tape conversations transcribed and edited by...