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One of the unexpected bonuses of the current Olympic Mania (Phelps Division) is the revelation of a diet that I might actually be able to observe without cheating. Or at least, in the spirit of John Edwards, not cheating that much. Swimming sensation Michael Phelps...

"Peace at the center": RN smiling at Marie Abplanalp's wedding Saturday, April 16, 1994 was a great day in the life of the 37th President. Marie Abplanalp, daughter of his friend Bob, was getting married in Bronxville, New York. President Nixon was a special guest at...

Robert Kagan's column in today's Washington Post is important and disturbing. Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Russia's attack on sovereign Georgian territory marked the...

In 1969, says Nixonland, the new president "was sworn in by Justice Black" (p. 357).  No, it was Chief Justice Earl Warren.  The book thus misses a delicious irony.  Nixon and Warren had been at odds since their days in California politics.  In 1968, Warren had sought...

The punchline of Richard Pryor's joke (Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?) is called to mind by this just in from Beijing Who will ever forget the thrill of watching those gigantic firework footprints marching across the sky from Tiananmen Square to the...

In today's Telegraph (London), Tim Shipman reports from Washington about the sea change of coverage involving Senator Obama. In the wake of his perhaps-a-shade-too-triumphal world tour, reporters have become more skeptical and comedians have become more enabled. Last...

The President is very much a man at ease in his own skin. And that's a good thing. But then, he is the President. The President is in Beijing to cheer on our Olympic athletes. And that's a good thing. But then, he is the first POTUS to attend an Olympics on foreign...

Nixonland credits Nixon's 1968 TV campaign to Gene Jones, who had made a fine war documentary without narration.  "Nixon's commercials would run without narration as well" (p. 333).  No, an important ad did have narration.  "Decisions" asked:  "Think about it - when...

In the American Thinker today, Russ Vaughn addresses exactly the question I had about John Edwards' purported fessing up --- aka the otherwise very modified limited hangout that he dubbed a definitive statement ("I have given a complete interview on this matter and...

We have recently lost three outstanding members of our Nixon family --- Anne Armstrong, Clay Whitehead, and Peter Rodman. In 1971 RN named Anne Armstrong co-chairman of the RNC. In 1972 he appointed her Counselor to the President with Cabinet rank. During the Ford...