May 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At The New York Times “Caucus” blog, Matt Bai compares Newt Gingrich to RN: [I]f Mr. Gingrich is looking for hopeful historical comparisons, the more apt one might be Richard Nixon. Unlike Mr. Reagan, who even in his lower moments retained a certain...
Apr 3, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Representative Darrell Issa, chair of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, has suggested that the Obama adminstration is too “Nixonian” in its approach to government transparency. But when it comes to foreign policy, says Mr. Issa, it is not...
Mar 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated...
Jan 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Washington Post, Mark Feldstein tells how the 1960 Kennedy campaign did opposition research on RN’s links to Howard Hughes. How did JFK’s campaign obtain this incriminating evidence? By paying the contemporary equivalent of $100,000 to a Los Angeles...
Dec 21, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On this day in 1970 , RN met Elvis. Okay, that’s not the most substantive historical observation that one could make today. The Orange County Register offers some very good advice about history: Beware of anachronisms. An anachronism in its broadest terms is...
