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Norm Ornstein wrote an appreciation of Edward Kennedy's Senate career for today's Roll Call. What has made Kennedy a great Senator? First is his hard work--incredibly hard work. When I worked in the Senate in 1970, I got to know some of the Kennedy staffers, and heard...

Some TNN readers ---the interested, the curious, the homebound, the masochists, and the ones with just too much time on their hands--- might be interested in checking out the audio of today's edition of Fresh Air . The interviewee is Rick Perlstein, author of the new...

In this week's New York Observer, Felix Gillette had an interesting article about the most recent ---and most prominent--- examples of news anchor off-camera meltdowns preserved on tape and served up for viewing across the universe. On 14 May, Torrey Meeks, a young...

There has recently been an uptick in Nixon commentary online and in the print press.  Not surprisingly, some of it is factually inaccurate.    Reviewing the Perlstein biography, Newsweek's Evan Thomas writes:  The establishment press had been flummoxed by it all. In...

Here's a link to James Rosen's appearance last night on c-span's Q&A. You can read the transcript or watch Brian Lamb lead the hour-long discussion about Mr. Rosen's about to be published (in 24 hours) book The Strong Man --- a biography of John Mitchell and a...

Reading yet another glowing review of Robert Schlesinger's new book about presidential speechwriters ---White House Ghosts--- in today's Washington Post reminded me that I meant to post a link to an earlier review (in the Washington Times) written by a member of RN's...

I have now read two-thirds of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland (that is, up to the point where the book describes the Kent State shootings and aftermath) and can confirm that this historian's narrative skills continue to be stronger than his primary research, which where...

Mitt Romney spoke about the relationship between religion and politics again last week, continuing and clarifying the argument he made in December while still a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The occasion for his recent remarks was his receipt...

What with all the 40th anniversary blathering about the “Spring of ‘68” and the international youth uprising that it is now fondly remembered as having represented (especially by the no-longer-youths who were there then and are now writing the cultural criticism), it...

And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.                                                                                                            George W. Bush   Just perhaps, President Bush can send the ‘right signal’ by “supporting the...