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An earlier post today dealt with some of the information that has started to flow from the papers and materials that Georgetown Law Professor Sam Dash’s estate deeded to the Library of Congress after his death in 2004 and which have just been opened to the public....

Expressing his affection and admiration for the Israeli people, Richard Nixon stated: Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for...

Tomorrow marks the publication of Rick Perlstein's nearly 800-page history Nixonland: The Rise Of A President And The Fracturing Of America. Over the weekend the book was reviewed by Newsweek's Evan Thomas, by George Will in the New York Times Book Review, by...

Over at The New York Times last week the Editors of the Sunday Book Review must have been faced with a terrible dilemma. Having chosen (a suitable and interesting choice) George W. Will to review Rick Perlstein's new anti-Nixon book Nixonland, which focuses on America...

While attending a recent symposium at Georgetown University in Washington on the life and career of the late Richard Helms (CIA Director - 1966-1973), I observed a panel of Cold Warriors answering audience questions. Panelists included: Dr. Henry Kissinger, Brent...

Virtually every aspect of Sandy Berger's brief and uncharacteristic career as researcher and thief at the National Archives ---including the lackadaisical attitude of the Justice Department investigating and pursuing the case--- raises more questions than it answers....

George Will's column earlier this week was apropos his visit to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence.

Nixonians remember Sam Dash as the Majority Counsel who organized and orchestrated the Ervin Committee's Watergate hearings. Many years later, in 1994, Professor Dash reemerged from the Georgetown Law Center to serve, mostly unhappily, as an ethics adviser to...

The irreverent political blog Wonkette today characterizes today's latest endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as "George McGovern hearts Barack Obama, the McGovern of the 21st Century." Not that Wonkette is particularly friendly to Sen. Hillary Clinton; the blog's newest...

Richard Nixon prided himself on his mastery of foreign affairs, both as President and as a senior statesman. An accomplishment of which he was most proud was his opening to China, both because it allowed the U.S. to use the “China card” to balance out a rising Soviet...