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As we approach Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the discovery of Saddam Hussein down the most famous spider hole in history, we now have the story of the intelligence, ingenuity, dedication, and, to be sure, luck, that led to his capture. Army Staff Sgt. Eric Maddox...

This morning the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the Golden Globe awards, and as expected Frost/Nixon led the field with five nominations (along with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Doubt; four nominations apiece went to...

Thirty-four years after his resignation, RN continues to obsess Democrats. The day before his arrest, Blago responded to a report that investigators had been taping him: "I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I...

In his column in today's Washington Post, Charles Lane writes about Bill Ayers --- the terrorist who won't just won't fess up and just won't go away.  As Mr. Lane explains: "He's got a book to sell and a misspent youth to rationalize."   (Fugitive Days:...

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...