Sep 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times website is reporting that William Safire, longtime columnist for the newspaper, one of Richard Nixon’s two leading speechwriters (with Ray Price) during the President’s first term, and, in 1959, an eyewitness to the Kitchen Debate in...
Sep 26, 2009 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
In early June of this year readers of Washington’s two dailies woke up to the news of the arrest of a much-liked, sophisticated, rather affluent local couple. W[alter] Kendall Myers, when FBI agents put the cuffs on him, was 72 years old; a great-grandson of...
Sep 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Three months ago I wrote a post about a Philadelphia newspaper’s profile of Jennie Eisenhower, President Nixon’s granddaughter whose stage career has taken her to theaters around the country. Starting on Wednesday, and continuing until November 1, she can...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, Bob Greene – the veteran journalist, not Oprah’s trainer – wrote a column for CNN.com about the nation’s winter of partisan discontent. (Well, yes, it is September, but the air did get perceptively colder this morning.) For decades,...
Sep 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, Irving Kristol died at the age of 89 in Arlington, Virginia. The New York Times obituary calls him the “Godfather of Conservatism;” the Washington Post’s obit is headlined “Architect of Neoconservatism.” Either way, there is no...
