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Quoting a tape in which RN complains to Henry Kissinger about the presidents of Ivy League institutions, a New Yorker article adds: David Skorton, the president of Cornell, was apprised of Nixon’s comments over the phone. “My mouth is open,” Skorton said, after the...

Today's Daily Beast offers a veritable Nixon cornucopia ---in fact, a pretty mixed bag, but none of it uninteresting--- of F/N- and RN-related features.

As RN often equably observed, his books could always count on at least a couple of hundred thousand sales because the cons ---who were eagerly anticipating delicious new Nixonian excesses and outrages--- were as likely to buy them as were the pros ---who were...

In today's Washington Post Peter Marks interviews Ron Howard, the director of Nixon/Frost, and Peter Morgan, its writer.  On C-SPAN's Washington Journal the other day Howard assured viewers that the film, already playing in New York and Los Angeles and scheduled to...

Back in middle 1980s, when I was a magazine editor, we would sit around my office one night shortly before each deadline and concoct each issue's all-but-obligatory lists ---Who's Hot, Who's Sexy, Who's Who, etc., etc.--- that would fill a double spread and be...

  "With a little bit of luck, and the help of a few close friends, you're going to carry Illinois." ---1960 phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daley    "[The Illinois Senate Seat] is a [expletive deleted] valuable thing.  You just don't give it away for nothing." ---2008...

(Politics breeds strange box fellows: flanking the Presidential Box at the Kennedy Center at last night's Kennedy Center Awards: from left, Twyla Tharp, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, The First Lady, President Bush.)...

In today's New York Times, veteran science correspondent William A. Broad previews two new books that combine to do some rewriting ---or at least some major revision--- of the atomic history. The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation...

The AP reported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comment about the the possibility of his cousin Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg being appointed to completeHillary Clinton's Senate term and running for the seat in 2010: Robert Kennedy said the family would come out en masse for...

From RN: In December 1941, thanks to the recommendations of one of y professors from Duke, David Cavers, I was offered a job with the Office of Price Administration in Washington.  The pay was only $3,200 a year, not nearly as much as Pat and I were making together...