May 29, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At the Christian Science Monitor, Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term “news conference” as an alternative to “press conference.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed’s first-ever official press conference...
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...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan’s shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN’s direction. He...
Jan 29, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
David Frye has passed away at the age of 77. He did a variety of impressions, and the New York Times obituary explains his most famous: It was Nixon, however, who kept Mr. Frye a regular on the top television variety shows and at the big Las Vegas casinos, perhaps...
Nov 24, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In The Smithsonian, Peter Carlson recounts the famous 1970 meeting between RN and Elvis Presley. He quotes Egil Krogh’s notes: “I’m on your side,” Elvis told Nixon, adding that he’d been studying the drug culture and Communist...
