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Senator Obama, Meet Reverend Gortner
One of the curious things about this ever-curiouser election is that half the time it seems like any of its interesting or unusual features ties in, somehow, with someone or something closely associated with the days of cold duck, bell bottoms and shag carpets - in...
Carter, Obama, and Evangelicals
As Barack Obama coasts to his coronation as the Democratic nominee in late August, he’s managed to convince many that he wears the mantle of Camelot. Toward that end, he’s been chasing Kennedy coattails every bit as much as he has delegates. Some who are clearly...
Katherine B. Loker Passes on at 92
Katherine Loker was a woman of seemingly infinite vision, energy, and drive, with a loving heart singularly focused on leaving the world better than she found it through a near-lifetime of her and her beloved late husband Donald's discerning philanthropy. As a devoted...
Department of Dog Bites Man
Politico today proudly features a non-story with a misleading headline. (I assume they're proud of the story because the text is accompanied by a video of reporter Jonathan Martin pretty much reciting it.) The headline is: "John McCain doesn't work weekends" ---- and...
Pat Buchanan Meets Rick Perlstein
Yesterday morning, toward the end of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski suppressed a giggle as she introduced Nixonland author Rick Perlstein. Viewers might have been forgiven for assuming the giggle was no different from any of the others that the frothy Ms....
“Frost/Nixon” To Open London Film Festival
Frank Langella as President Nixon in White House East Room in Yorba Linda Director Ron Howard's new film, "Frost/Nixon," will have its world premiere not in Hollywood but at the London Film Festival in October. With three scenes shot at the Nixon Library, the film,...
Appeasement and Detente: Two VERY Different Things
The current on-going review of the history of APPEASEMENT during the 1930s and the lessons, if any, that can be applied to current geopolitics, has reminded some of the Nixonian philosophy of DÉTENTE. And there may appear to be a surface similarity. The argument goes...
Two 1968 Myths in One
In Time, Jay Newton-Small writes a sentence with a minor mistake and a major one: Richard Nixon practically perfected the transformation in 1968, initially building his "silent majority" of conservatives freaked out by hippie war protesters and inner-city riots before...
George Carlin RIP
It's probably a good thing that George Carlin didn't believe in an afterlife. Because if he had, he would be turning over in his grave as a result of being remembered and lauded in the precincts of The New Nixon. He had no use and great contempt for our namesake; he...
Rick Perlstein Replies To Sean Wilentz & Happy 1000th
This morning Nixonland author Rick Perlstein replies to The Age Of Reagan author Sean Wilentz at The New Republic's site, and what he has to say will take Roger Stone's mind off the question of which shirt to wear tomorrow, if only for a moment. The historian also...