Richard Nixon Speeches, Writings, Documents (The James Madison Library in American Politics)
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | yesterday
Frost/Nixon is a 2008 film based on a play about David Frost's 1977 series of interviews with Richard Nixon. Ron Howard directs. Frank Langella is Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen is David Frost. The Younger Son gave this to me for my birthday, and we watched it tonight. I remember well the events that led up to the story told in this film. It makes me mad all over again. And apparently we learned nothing...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
On this day in 1962, Richard Nixon gave his " last press conference " after losing the California governor's race. Said Nixon: "Gentlemen, think of what you're going to miss. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Just six years later he was elected president.
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | yesterday
PHOTO: (click on photo to enlarge) arrow points to the head of George McGovern speaking as the 1972 Democratic Party nominee for President at a rally in front of the Northrop Memorial Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus in 1972. George McGovern ran as an ultra-liberal peace candidate who promised to end the Vietnam War , but he lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to the...
William F. Yurasko (Free subscription) | yesterday
Carroll H. Cook ("54 Pitt) chatted again this past Wednesday and Penn State was mentioned a few times. Matt (Philadelphia): Beano, need a clarification on something from your podcast a couple weeks back. In 1969, did Penn State simply choose not to play the Texas-Arkansas winner in the Cotton Bowl? If so why was Paterno so mad? beano cook: The players voted 33-30 to play Missouri. Penn State turned...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Shortly after the White House declared "war" on Fox's news division last month, calling it an arm of the Republican Party and attempting to freeze it out of a pooled press briefing, pundits on both the left and the right cried foul, summoning up comparisons to Richard Nixon's paranoid, vindictive presidency and based on the transcript of a Nixon tape below that comparison is very justified:...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Odd. The Lacuna is no Barbara Kingoslver I know: Barbara Kingsolver provides a foil to this tendency with The Lacuna, all the more remarkable, it's fair to say, given the position reserved for it on best-seller lists. The novel's own artifactualness is never in question, since, to highlight the deceptive ways we both perceive and receive history, Kingsolver has dreamed up a series of private journals,...
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer , and other right wingers have begun to converge on a unified theory of Obama – a systematic critique of who he is, what he stands for, and what he is trying to do. Part of this theory – one of the core themes being developed – is that Obama is the most far left American leader ever. Rush Limbaugh expresses...
Watch Online movie,Download Free Mo (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
On 5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy , as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war. Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral College and 43.4% of the popular vote; the Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey,...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
"We have a cancer--within, close to the Presidency, that's growing. It's growing daily. It's compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself." -- White House Counsel John Dea n to President Richard Nixon, March 21, 1973 by Ken I know there's a tremendous clamor for my election post-mortems. Okay, "tremendous clamor" may be a slight overstatement. Well, it remains...
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Mao Zedung and Richard Nixon invented ping pong diplomacy. Saif Al Islam Kadhafi is practicing that of the paint brush. (...) [205mots]
Lens (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A retired Atlantic City firefighter endured decades of jokes because of his name.
Rough Ol' Boy (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
At the end of a review of two new books on Sarah Palin, reason editor Nick Gillespie makes the following claim: If Richard Nixon could come back from a famously non-mediagenic presidential run, a humiliating gubernatorial defeat and the most god-awful retirement speech in history, there’s no reason that Sarah Palin can’t. Or at least won’t [...]
Dad29 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Top 10 " Big Tent " Moments: Number ten: Newt Gingrich does a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008. Number nine moderate moment in GOP history: Bush-Quayle '92. The number eight moderate moment GOP history: Dole-Kemp '96. The number seven most moderate moment in Republican history: Ford-Dole '76. Do you see a pattern here? Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Darlene Superville, AP: WASHINGTON -- Dale Haney is the keeper of the White House grounds. In nearly 40 years of keeping the grass green and the flowers blooming, he's also managed to cultivate something just as important: relationships with the presidents' pooches. Haney is often spotted walking Bo, the Obama family's Portuguese water dog. In fact, he's tended to every White House pup since King Timahoe,...
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