Jul 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As noted by John Taylor below, Marcus Brauchli, a 25-year veteran of the Wall Street Journal, who was its managing editor from April 18, 2007, until resigning just over a year later following Rupert Murdoch’s takeover, has been named the executive editor of the...
Jul 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today is the 100th anniversary of Nelson A. Rockefeller’s birth. The world was —and remains— a better place for the life-enhancing presence of that particular polymath politician, philanthropist, connoisseur, collector — and RN nemesis. The...
Jul 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Describing the 1962 California GOP gubernatorial primary between Richard Nixon and Joe Shell, Rick Perlstein writes (p. 60): Nixon’s primary victory over Shell was humiliatingly close. Shell did hurt Nixon by undermining his conservative support and forcing him...
