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The Voice Of Experience On Experience
Our good friend Dick Allen, who served as RN's foreign policy coordinator during the 1968 campaign, and was present at the creation of the Nixon Administration, has written an interesting piece ---"Obama's Experience Doesn't Match Up"--- in today's Wall Street...
24 July 1969: Home From The Moon
On 24 July 1969, RN was in mid-Pacific welcoming the Apollo 11 crew home from the moon. Like the rest of the mission, everything had gone almost flawlessly. After traveling 240,000 miles, the capsule ---named Columbia--- splashed down less than two miles from the...
What’s In A Word?
"West Virginia already has the men to match her mountains - men of vigor and courage and determination ." - Sen. John F. Kennedy in Glenwood Park, West Virginia, April 26, 1960, one of dozens of campaign addresses in which he spoke of "vigah" in his distinctive...
Ways With Words
The Telegraph (London) is very partial to making lists --- from the 100 Most Influential US Conservatives to the 100 Most Beautiful Cars Of All Time. And now, in today's paper, and triggered by the fact that "When Senator Barack Obama steps onto the stage on Thursday,...
Protesting at the Olympics
The director for security for the Beijing Olympic organizing committee announced today that protests would be allowed in specially designated areas in several parks in Beijing during the Olympics. According to BOCOG: “During the Olympics, in order to ensure a smooth...
This Just In: Dan Rather Has A Hitch In His Giddy Up
Dan Rather has always been about as tightly wound as a coot in a chicken coop, but during a recent MSNBC appearance, his brain appeared to be about as dependable as a Times Square Rolex. For all those who miss the Danisms from the days when he was on the air and in...
A Brit Looks At Nixonland
Rick Perlstein's Nixonland hit British bookstores earlier this month, and at the London Telegraph Dominic Sandbrook, of Oxford's history faculty and the author of well-received books on Eugene McCarthy and England in the Swinging Sixties, reviews it. His assessment...
Disaster Diplomacy: Sino-U.S. Humanitarian Exercises
Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command said yesterday that he and his Chinese counterpart had agreed to conduct two bilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster response exercises. According to the Department of Defense: Keating said he and...
Yankee Stadium’s Best Night
The recent 2008 Major League Baseball All Star Game-and-a-half showcased not only the game’s current best and greats from yesteryear; it also starred a structure. The venue was the message. As Yankee Stadium brings athletes and fans through its gates as part of a...
Snow And Tull
Few people were better liked in Washington, and for good reason, than former White House press spokesperson Tony Snow, who died last week at age 53, so it's no surprise that this morning President Bush, Karl Rove, and other figures from the political, social, and...
