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Only The Latest Proof The End Of World Is At Hand
Here it is. No other interpretation seems possible. From the publisher's description it doesn't sound like a fun filled or instructional base is left uncovered. Who could be better qualified to write a book for the 4-8 year old set than Washington legend Helen Thomas,...
Some Concluding Reflections On Nixonland
This week I finished Rick Perlstein's book Nixonland. My conclusions are not very much changed from what I previously posted, and as I mentioned previously Oxford historian Dominic Sandbrook's review in the London Telegraph expresses an opinion of the book close to...
Wisdom from the Old Man
Michael Savage recently attacked kids with autism. One of those kids is my son, and I replied to Savage in National Review Online. I was able to keep my composure by remembering what Nixon once said: "One can only be angry with those he respects."
Moscow Rules
The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. displays a list of what are called Moscow Rules – commonly accepted guidelines for the good guys during the Cold War. Basically, they are based on a through-the-looking-glass approach to reality, where nothing is as it...
Houston, We Have A Visitor
Yesterday was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the return to earth of the first two men to walk on the moon --- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo XI crew. The day before yesterday, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a member of the Apollo XIV crew and the sixth man to walk...
25 July 1969: The Nixon Doctrine
The day after welcoming the Apollo XI astronauts home from the moon, RN talked with some reporters during a stopover on the mid-Pacific island of Guam. The backstory and the reception of his very few words on that July afternoon have been the subject of speculation on...
The Voice Of Experience On Experience
Our good friend Dick Allen, who served as RN's foreign policy coordinator during the 1968 campaign, and was present at the creation of the Nixon Administration, has written an interesting piece ---"Obama's Experience Doesn't Match Up"--- in today's Wall Street...
24 July 1969: Home From The Moon
On 24 July 1969, RN was in mid-Pacific welcoming the Apollo 11 crew home from the moon. Like the rest of the mission, everything had gone almost flawlessly. After traveling 240,000 miles, the capsule ---named Columbia--- splashed down less than two miles from the...
What’s In A Word?
"West Virginia already has the men to match her mountains - men of vigor and courage and determination ." - Sen. John F. Kennedy in Glenwood Park, West Virginia, April 26, 1960, one of dozens of campaign addresses in which he spoke of "vigah" in his distinctive...
Ways With Words
The Telegraph (London) is very partial to making lists --- from the 100 Most Influential US Conservatives to the 100 Most Beautiful Cars Of All Time. And now, in today's paper, and triggered by the fact that "When Senator Barack Obama steps onto the stage on Thursday,...