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George Weigel Remembers Chuck Colson
In the month since the passing of Charles W. "Chuck" Colson, the Special Counsel for President Nixon who subsequently became one of Christian evangelism's most dynamic figures, there has been much written about his two careers in politics and religion. Most of what...
Fox Recalls the Lasting Impact of Pat Nixon at Friendship Park
Fox News recently highlighted the work of Border Encuentro, a grassroots bi-national border group which advocates bringing Mexican and American people together at the border in San Diego to meet, play games, and share common interests. As the report notes, that is...
Ben Stein’s Memories Of The Nixon White House (And Elvis!)
On many, many occasions, latterday Renaissance man Ben Stein has written about his lifelong admiration for President Nixon and the days he spent as a speechwriter in the White House in 1973 and 1974. But earlier this week at...
“Frost/Nixon” In The OC
Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon, in the nearly six years since it premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London with Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella memorably playing the President, has been performed around the world, its popularity partly spurred by...
Ed Nixon Speaks In South Carolina
On Thursday at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, President Nixon's younger brother Edward spoke in the second of the Hipp Lecture Series on International Affairs and National Security. (The first event in this series was a debate among the Republican...
Was RN the Last Republican Moderate?
Former Nixon speechwriter Lee Huebner argues yes, during a panel discussion about GOP moderates at the Bipartisan Policy Center: Perhaps necessarily—since there aren’t any moderate Republicans left in Congress—the discussion was grounded in the past. Huebner evoked...
Watergate’s Mythbusters
“MythBusters,” one of the more popular shows on the Discovery Channel, spends lots of time figuratively – and occasionally literally – exploding such myths as “Is it easy to shoot fish in a barrel?,” “Can an old hammer actually explode?,” and “Is water bulletproof?”...
Remembering Ping-Pong In College Park
Considerable attention was given two months ago to the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon's visit to China, but this month marked four decades since an event which, though it seems little-remembered now, was also a landmark in its way. During the 1971 tour that...
Can Romney Win With A Page From Nixon’s ’72 Playbook?
In the spring of 1972, long before his three campaigns for the White House, Pat Buchanan was the 33-year-old special assistant in the Nixon White House who had coined the term "silent majority" in the 1968 campaign and now was pondering how his boss could reach that...
Former DoD Official: Keep Nixon’s Army
In the Washington Post, Washington lawyer and former DoD consultant Elliot Feldman argues for the permanence of the all-volunteer force: The answer does not lie in larger forces that we cannot afford nor in a coercive system that is inherently unfair. The U.S....