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The Forgotten Carol of Christmas
To all of my friends and colleagues at TNN - I want to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas with a thought or two about the sounds of the season. What’s your favorite Christmas song? That’s a very subjective question. Some like to hear about “chestnuts roasting...
Pat Buchanan On Mark Felt’s Passing
At MSNBC.com yesterday, Nixon White House advisor and speechwriter, and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan offered his assessment of the career of W. Mark Felt, the self-identified "Deep Throat" who died last week. He observes: Indeed, if what Felt did was...
RN’s Christmas Present to John McCain
John McCain recalls the Christmas of 1972: Finally came the day I'll never forget—the eighteenth of December, 1972. The whole place exploded when the Christmas bombing ordered by President Nixon began. They hit Hanoi right off the bat. It was the most spectacular show...
12/24/68 — Forty Years Ago Today
On 21 December 1968, Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, was launched from Cape Kennedy. The crew of three included: Frank Borman, commander; James A. Lovell, command module pilot; and William A. Anders, lunar module pilot. Apollo 8 was the first of...
My Christmas Gift For My TNN Readers
I had intended to surprise each of my TNN readers with a gift that would be sitting in your driveway on Christmas morning. Unfortunately the logistics turned out to be a nightmare of international shipping schedules, import regulations, and customs inspectors who...
12/22/68 — Forty Years Ago Today
From RN: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's Marble Collegiate Church in New York had played such an important and happy part in our family's life since we moved to New York that Julie felt very deeply about being married there and about having all reporters and cameramen...
12/21/70 — Thirty-Eight Years Ago Today
It never hurts to ask. Someone may be listening.
POTUSE’s Latest Brilliant Choice
The POTUSE has named Elizabeth Alexander as the Poet Laureate of his Inauguration. She will join the select company of poets ---Robert Frost (JFK), Maya Angelou (Clinton '93), and Miller Williams (Clinton '97)--- who have read the poems they wrote at the Inauguration...
Watergate Revisionism CREEPs Into Washington Post?
It's hard to resist capitalizing that that word when writing on this subject and this newspaper. That said, the reaction of Washington Post writers to the death of W. Mark Felt, who unveiled himself in 2005 as "Deep Throat," has been, a little surprisingly, not...
Another Side Of Mark Felt
As readers of his book about the 1950 Senate election in California (Tricky Dick And The Pink Lady) know, Editor & Publisher editor-in-chief Greg Mitchell is far from being a fan of the 37th President. But, as this article shows, he is aware, from personal...