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03 Dec 02 : 01 | Dick Morris on TNN-TV Former Clinton political adviser, Fox News commentator, and author of the New York Times bestseller Fleeced gave a lecture at the Nixon Library Monday. He also made an appearance on this 4th episode of TNN-TV: Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... 3 hours ago |
02 Dec 20 : 15 | With Friends Like These The Frost/Nixon nationwide festival is about to begin as the film opens this Friday. There was a preview last night at the National Geographic Society here in Washington. After the screening there was a Q+A with director Ron Howard, writer Peter Morgan, and Nixon obsessive James Reston Jr.,... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... 8 hours ago |
28 Nov 20 : 48 | The Perils Of The Middle Way It’s a classic dynamic: Rivals inch toward understanding, if not yet friendship. Bitter anger gives way first, perhaps, to exhaustion and then the glimmer of a possibility of the hope of peace. Always good news — except for extremists who for whatever reason find the idea of accommodation or... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
28 Nov 19 : 48 | Hillary At State: The Continuing Conundrum In today’s Wall Street Journal the paper’s Washington correspondent Kimberley Strassel devotes her “Potomac Watch” column to the consequences inherent in President-elect Obama’s reported offer of the office of Secretary of State to Sen. Hillary Clinton. The column maintains that the... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
27 Nov 18 : 02 | Please Pass the Brisket Ever hear of Gershom Mendes Seixas? Well, he might just be the forgotten hero of Thanksgiving. Our national Thanksgiving narrative is rich with stories about proclamations, gatherings, meals, traditions, football, and of course, the obligatory pardoning of a turkey by the president of these United... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
26 Nov 16 : 47 | “Wonderful Combination Of Circumstances” A rather unusual op-ed appears in today’s Washington Post, written by Karl E. Meyer, a longtime writer (and editorial-board member) for both that paper and the New York Times, who recently retired after many years editing World Policy Journal, and his wife Shareen Blair Brysac. The column argues... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
26 Nov 19 : 22 | Sen. Clinton at State Unconstitutional? U.S. Constitution: Article I, section 6: “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time.”... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
24 Nov 08 : 01 | Featured Articles — November 24, 2008 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: Admit We Don’t Know By William Kristol “In my view it has to be between five and seven hundred billion dollars,” proclaimed Senator Charles Schumer Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” The “it” is the economic stimulus package the new Congress intends... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
18 Nov 18 : 31 | F/N: New York Premiere The improbable upward career of the improbable hit Frost/Nixon continues. The film, which will open in theaters on December 5th, premiered in New York last night at the Ziegfeld Theater. If you believe Fox News’ super savvy entertainment reporter Roger Friedman, this year’s Oscar for Best... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
22 Nov 19 : 17 | Weirdest Article In Journalism History Jodi Kantor of the New York Times, assisted by five (5) other reporters, writes about how Sen. Clinton’s choice as secretary of state would be a triumph for women. She and her team don’t mention that two women have held the job already. Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
23 Nov 08 : 01 | Featured Articles — November 23, 2008 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: One Surge Does Not Fit All By Donald Rumsfeld THE surge in Iraq has been one of the most impressive military accomplishments in recent years. It has been so successful that the emerging consensus is that what may now be needed in Afghanistan is a similar surge... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
23 Nov 05 : 40 | The Obama Team Takes Shape On Wednesday, the Associated Press sent out an interesting article listing the people who had either been confirmed for top Cabinet and staff positions in the administration of President-elect Obama, or were said to be among the ones being seriously considered by the President-elect and his... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
21 Nov 08 : 41 | Department Of Wishful Thinking New York Times: “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it’s on MySpace or sending instant messages,” said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the [MacArthur Foundation] study, “Living and Learning With New Media.” “But their participation is... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
20 Nov 20 : 21 | Reaching For The Fifteenth And A Half Minute Of Fame Joe the Plumber has signed a book deal. The book is clearly intended to be a serious literary effort — as indicated by the currently requisite colon in its title: Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream Having written off, so to speak, the option of dealing with one of the big... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
20 Nov 13 : 26 | Featured Articles — November 20, 2008 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: Failure is Not an Option By Victor Davis Hanson We all remember the advice about failure we received from our parents and teachers. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” “Learn from your mistakes.” “Failure breeds success.” Two Wrongs,... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
21 Nov 08 : 02 | Featured Articles — November 21, 2008 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: Keep Gates By Peggy Noonan But Mrs. Clinton at Foggy Bottom? Can they be serious? Obama’s Senate Play By Kimberley Strassel If the president wants 60 Senate votes, he’ll have to fight for them one by one. Why Obama Wants Hillary for His ‘Team of... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
19 Nov 22 : 52 | Secretary Clinton? Some Reasons Why There’s a lot going on in Jason Horowitz’ short article —”Why Would Obama Proffer State Gig to Clinton?“— in the New York Observer today. People are speaking the unspeakable, thinking the unthinkable, whistling past the graveyard, making a virtue of adversity, and —just in case she... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
18 Nov 15 : 36 | Pit Bulls And Attack Dogs Washington blogger and former Nixon Center executive director Steve Clemons is quoted in a New York Times article about the drama attending staff and prospective Cabinet picks by “No-Drama Obama”: “Barack Obama is bringing in all of the pit bulls and attack dogs and spear hunters into his... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
18 Nov 08 : 53 | Putting It Together With the Clinton/State nomination having reached near-obsessional status, some news stories supply some context. Agence France Presse reported: Former US president Bill Clinton said on Sunday that his wife Hillary will be a “great secretary of state” if president-elect Barack Obama named her to... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
19 Nov 04 : 36 | 58 And Counting From Alaska tonight comes word that with all but a handful of ballots counted Mark Begich appears to have defeated Sen. Ted Stevens by less than a percentage point. Thus ends Stevens’ 40 years in the Senate, the longest period served by a Republican, which saw him usually re-elected by large... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
18 Nov 14 : 26 | Big Sister Is Listening Profiles In Courage: Press Division: Chris Matthews doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut (either waking or sleeping) but nonetheless appreciates that his bread is buttered on both sides. On today’s Page Six: “HARDBALL” host Chris Matthews and the other “castratos” at MSNBC... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
13 Nov 23 : 09 | An Unexpected “Nixonland” Review It has now been about a half-year since Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland was published, and some time back I noticed that no review had appeared in The American Spectator, a magazine avidly read by the 37th President and usually not a place where major books about him go unnoticed. Well, Perlstein’s... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
13 Nov 22 : 53 | Department of Cognitive Dissonance In today’s Wall Street Journal, under the headline “Bush Defends American Capitalism Ahead of G-20 Summit,” John D. McKinnon gives a preview of President Bush’s upcoming speech: “Ultimately, the best evidence for free market capitalism is its performance compared to other economic... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
11 Nov 16 : 01 | Gingrich Misconstrued Adam Nagourney’s whither-the-GOP article in today’s New York Times contains this odd paragraph: But Mr. Gingrich, a veteran of what turned out to be damaging Republican wars with President Bill Clinton in 1993 and 1994, cautioned against that, saying the party would be wiser to offer a broad... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
11 Nov 01 : 38 | Friedman: “Show Us The Money” Thomas Friedman: President Bush, because he was so easily demonized, made being a free-rider on American power easy for everyone — and Americans paid the price. Obama will not make it so easy. So to everyone overseas I say: thanks for your applause for our new president. I’m glad you all feel... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
10 Nov 20 : 29 | Campaign Cliff Notes The helpful folks over at the Daily Beast have prepared a crib sheet for “Secrets of the 2008 Campaign” — Newsweek’s seven chapter 50K word epic of oxen gored, scores settled, and 2012 knives sharpened about the 2008 presidential campaign just past. (It’s much better than Newsweek’s own... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
11 Nov 22 : 58 | Andrew Sullivan: Matt Lauer Is “Pathetic” Another false statement from Andrew Sullivan, who refuses to admit he erred by republishing a blatant lie about Trig’s parentage before checking the facts: There was no actual refutation of the rumor from the McCain-Palin campaign until the same Michael Goldfarb told Howie Kurtz of the Washington... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
09 Nov 07 : 06 | “Ha” On Ron Howard The news flash is that “Frost/Nixon” director Ron Howard thinks he voted for President Nixon in 1972. At the same time, we learn either that he was an impatient voter or that he, New York Times interviewer Deborah Solomon, and the Times copy desk are all evidently a little confused: Did you vote... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
07 Nov 21 : 48 | First Outing The POTUSE has now held his first press conference. He handled it with confidence, aplomb, and a suitable seriousness — no surprises there. The substance is already undergoing deconstruction in the blogosphere. Here are a few notes about the style. He took questions from the following... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
07 Nov 06 : 44 | The Gov Gets A Walk So the feds have decided not to prosecute Eliot Spitzer. Here’s how The New York Times reported the news: Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not face criminal charges for patronizing a high-priced prostitution ring, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. Mr. Spitzer resigned as governor in... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
06 Nov 19 : 14 | Hope? We’ll Talk Later The New York Times reports that Pres-elect Obama’s aids are already lowering expectations in face of daunting economic troubles; they say that enthusiastic supporters will understand that it might not fully come until the first 1,000 days. By then, a Pres. Obama will already be running for his... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
06 Nov 04 : 29 | Newsprint’s Last Hurrah? It’s hardly news that print media has been in steady decline ever since the moment that the ball came down in Times Square on December 31, 1999, and the world realized that these newfangled computers were not going to all crash and were here to stay. This morning, further proof arrived when Mort... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
07 Nov 18 : 11 | 1968: Lyndon, Dick, and Billy Forty years ago, in the wake of the hard-fought 1968 presidential election, the nation faced what many assumed would be a turbulent transition. But it did not turn out that way. Whatever happened later, the country moved from what had been the one of the most divisive campaigns in our history, to... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
07 Nov 04 : 22 | No More Calls Please — We Have A Winner After a great deal of discussion and speculation, we finally have the answer: Barack Obama is the New Nixon. The clincher? I’ll let Anthony Holden tell you in his own words from today’s Daily Beast: Among the countless blessings conferred by the election of Barack Obama is the energizing... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
06 Nov 07 : 38 | Forewarned But Not Yet Forearmed The 9/11 Commission warned that “the greatest danger of another catastrophic attack in the United States will materialize if the world’s most dangerous terrorists acquire the world’s most dangerous weapons.” So, in 2007, Congress established the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
02 Nov 06 : 23 | The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Every Sunday, The Soundtrack of Our Lives looks back at some of the music that was popular, and the performers who were influential, around the time Richard Nixon was elected President. BURT BACHARACH For the two decades —from the late 1950s to the late 1970s— Burt Bacharach was a composing,... Source : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his... |
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