Sep 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In 1868, Benjamin Disraeli, upon achieving the office of British Prime Minister, at the age of 63 and thirty-one years after first winning election to the House of Commons, said: “I have reached the top of the greasy pole.” Disraeli was much admired by...
Sep 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I never thought I’d live to see the day when I would recommend one of Paul Krugman’s opinion columns in the New York Times as a “must see” for readers of The New Nixon. That day has come (actually, it came yesterday, but I was on deadline on a speech, so I’m a day...
Sep 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
World War II began seventy years ago today. After the initial German victories there would be some months of phony war before Europe really engaged; and it would take a couple of years before we entered; but today is when it began. W. H. Auden famously lamented the...
Aug 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s the best —you can forget the rest — from Paul Krugman’s column in today’s New York Times: …it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s...
Aug 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s San Jose Mercury-News has an editorial that begins by pointing out some similarities between the national health-care program advocated in the early 1970s by President Nixon, and the one that President Obama is now trying to get through Congress. The...
