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“Frost/Nixon’s” Unsung Hero?
John W. Dean's latest column at findlaw.com concerns Frost/Nixon. That's not especially surprising in itself. But what is downright strange is that Dean has not seen Ron Howard's film or Peter Morgan's play because, he says, "scheduling" conflicts haven't permitted...
Sadder But Wiser
Wonkette paid a visit to Harold Ickes --- the man who already owned the f bomb when Rahm Emanuel was still in short pants. The son of FDR's distinguished (and famously cantankerous) Interior Secretary, Mr. Ickes was a successful labor lawyer before becoming Deputy...
2.18.09
On 18 February 2008, the first edition of The New Nixon was uploaded. The rest is history.
C-SPAN’s POTUS Poll
Our once and future colleague Father Taylor recently linked to the results of C-SPAN's most recent survey of historians regarding the reputations and legacies of American Presidents. The sixty-five survey participants included an interesting mix of academics and...
Presidents Day 2009
An Historian-To-Be Looks At The Kutler Controversy
Jeremy Young, a doctoral student in history at Indiana University and the founder of progressivehistorians.com, offers this observation after reporting the rejection by the American Historical Review of Peter D. Klingman's paper about Stanley I. Kutler's Abuse Of...
37 & 16
On The Caucus blog in today's New York Times, political reporter Katharine Q. Seelye has an interesting post about President Obama's intense feeling of connection with Abraham Lincoln and the ways in which he is expressing it publicly. The piece begins with a general...
When The Going Gets Weird On The Late Show
Joaquin Phoenix's appearance on last night's Late Show is being widely deconstructed on the internet and the radio. It's true that he hasn't hitherto been known as a pillar of dependability or stability ---his past history and his recent decision to forswear acting...
2.12.09
Today, of course, is Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. This portrait, by George P. A. Healy, was one of the fifteen painted of the sixteenth President by the most popular portraitist of the day. It was painted in 1887, twenty-two years after Lincoln's death, but...
Taylor Leaving as Nixon Foundation Executive Director
John H. Taylor, President Nixon's former chief of staff and executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation since 1990, is leaving his Foundation position on Feb. 15 to accept the call of the Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles, J. Jon Bruno,...