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Watch What We Say Not What We…Dooops
The intrepid Detroit News has tracked down the automobile registrations of the eight members of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry appointed last week to save the American automobile industry. The paper also checked out the auto info of the ten White...
Socks 1989 – 2009
Socks, who served as the White House Cat from 1992-2001, died on Friday near his waterfront home in Hollywood, Maryland. The former First Feline was believed to have been twenty, although there are some discrepancies involving his date and place of birth. He had...
Save Acting: Vote Nixon
On today''s Daily Beast, critic Lee Siegel hopes against hope that the Members of the Academy will have the wisdom to reward and encourage real acting ---as opposed to camera-aided impersonation--- by choosing Frank Langella as Best Actor. Whereas Mickey Rourke's...
Handicapping Best Actor
An AFP story out of Hollywood takes a look at the odds that bookmakers are offering as to what film or actor or actress will win the "Golden Dude," as Robin Williams tearfully dubbed his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor when he won for Good Will Hunting. Slumdog...
“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...