November 25, 2009 » Richard Nixon Foundation | Blog

This Thanksgiving, Please Pass The Brisket

(This article was written for The New Nixon last Thanksgiving. Recently, the editor of The Jewish Press, “America’s Largest Independent Jewish Weekly,” asked permission to use it in the print and on line editions of that paper in the days before...

Palin and Nixon

At Air America and The Huffington Post, Mark Green compares Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon.  He notes an obvious difference: RN “was vastly more experienced and sophisticated.”  He has a point, but one could make the same point about most other political...

Everybody Knows The Bird Is The Word

A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street.   (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, and a year later — on 12...