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On the day that changed everything, September 11, 2001, then New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani seized the moment and guided that most unmanageable of all municipalities through its unsurpassed dark day. When the mayor reached the point of exhaustion in the early...

Republicans are comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter.  Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's domestic policy adviser, claims that Carter does not deserve blame for the malaise of the late 1970s.  He says: “What led to the economic problems was the built-in inflation, which we...

That is the query Barron YoungSmith, an intern at The New Republic, poses at the magazine's website this week.  (YoungSmith is a 2006 Brown University graduate, incidentally.  And some people were amazed that 39-year-old Rick Perlstein was fascinated enough by the...

Countering Rick Perlstein's Nixonland, RN biographer Conrad Black argues that RN won in 1972 not because he was a good polarizer but because he was a good President: It is not mentioned that only Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in more daunting...

John Mitchell biographer James Rosen on a Nixon benchmark to which Sen. McCain may hope to attain: [I]t was...Nixon, that most complex psychological character, who earned more of the black vote — 32% in his 1960 loss to John F. Kennedy — than any GOP nominee of the...

Now that the general election campaign has started, there is a great deal of talk about the GOP's "Southern Strategy." Many accounts say that the strategy was responsible for electing Nixon in 1968 and thus became the template for Republican presidential politics. But...

Somewhere up there, perhaps, Tim Russert is sending the word out to the George Clinton who did not sing "dogs of the world unite," John C. Calhoun, Thomas A. Hendricks, Adlai E. Stevenson I, and Charles W. Fairbanks to appear on next Sunday's Meet The Press (Celestial...

Today's New York Times brings news of the latest effort on the part of liberal and left-wing media figures to sway American public opinion - the launch of the Progressive Book Club.   Its CEO, nonprofit fundraiser Elizabeth Wagley (whose father John Wagley has long...

The New York Times has just posted an appropriately detailed and suitably appreciative obituary of Tony Schwartz, who died Saturday at home in Manhattan; he was 84. The highlight of his long and distinguished career in advertising, media, and communications,...

Greetings, supporters and students of Richard Nixon! Just a note to thank you in advance for welcoming me to the Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda this coming Tuesday, June 17, at 7 pm, when I'll be reading from, taking questions about, and...