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Et tu, Leon?
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...
The Ginsburg Slam, Or Meeting The Media
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...
Perhaps Give That Afterword Another Polish, Mr. Dean
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...
Keach, Cox, Zelnick Discuss “Frost/Nixon”
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...
Tom Daschle’s Cloth Coat
From 1986:
2.2.68
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...
“Abuse Of Power” Questioned
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...
President Langella: Alone In The Dressing Room
The most recent issue of Newsweek featured its annual Oscar Roundtable, moderated by the magazine's David Ansen and Ramin Setoodeh. The participants this year included Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Robert Downey Jr., Brad Pitt, Mickey Rourke, and Frank Langella, the...
Taking the Heat
During the 1973 energy crisis, RN took criticism for his habit of running the fireplace and the air conditioning at the same time. And so it is worth noting this item from today's New York Times: The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in...
One Man’s Humor Is Another Man’s Humidor
The former presidents traveling road show of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton pulled into New Orleans yesterday for a gig with the National Automobile Dealers Association. Everybody knows that you're supposed to open a speech with a joke, but who knew that Mr. Bush...