News
10.31.60
Arnold’s Acrostic
RN sometimes used bad language in private, but what Governor Schwarzenegger did recently was much worse. To get back at a legislator who had taunted him, he inserted an obscene acrostic into a veto message for one of the legislator's bills. This act was not a sudden...
Sonny Rises In The West
At 7 PM tonight in Yorba Linda, the Nixon Library will welcome Elvis Presley's friend and bodyguard Sonny West, who will talk about ---and sign copies of--- his book Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business. White House photographer Ollie Atkins captured a candid moment...
10.24.69
Forty years ago today, Time magazine asked a question that the President would answer definitively on 3 November.
The New Realpolititik?
Ever since President Obama's took the oath of office twice last January, he's been compared by pundits to every previous Chief Executive since Millard Fillmore or at least Chester Alan Arthur. For the last week the Nixon comparisons have flown hot and heavy; next week...
“The Fugitive,” Guest Starring Carl Bernstein?
Late last week Alexander Cockburn, one of the elder statesmen of unreconstructed radical journalism, posted an article on his CounterPunch.com site in which he discussed President Obama's prospects of prevailing in his feud with Fox News. Unlike many more mainstream...
Living The Nixon Legacy
(Photo credit, Gary Byron Photography): Murals of President and Mrs. Nixon's landmark voyage of peace to the People's Republic of China are on display at South Coast Plaza. I had always assumed that ping-pong was a relatively easy game –the activity that one plays at...
Laughing Matters
From a recent Onion: Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the...
Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton, and RN
Forty-seven years after his own run for the office, RN is making a cameo in the race for California governor. The Sacramento Bee reports: More than a decade before Jerry Brown's current incarnation as undeclared gubernatorial front-runner, he hit the airwaves of...
The Muse of the Obama White House
In their attacks on Fox News and tea-party protesters, White House officials are cribbing from a speech given 40 years ago next month. [W]e should ask what is the end value--to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result--to inform or to confuse? How does the...
