Jack Pitney - Biography

John J. Pitney, Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He writes and teaches about elections, political parties, Congress, and the presidency, and has taught a course about President Nixon.

Posts by Jack Pitney:

• Again with the “Secret Plan”, 30 Apr 2010
• Pelosi-land, 19 Mar 2010
• Nixon in the Navy, 24 Jan 2010
• State of the Union, 24 Jan 2010
• Nixon, Now More Than Ever, 01 Jan 2010
• The First Nixon-Kennedy Debate, 26 Dec 2009
• RN and Day Care, 19 Dec 2009
• Obama, Nixon, and Peace Through Strength, 13 Dec 2009
• Provocative Nonsense, 05 Dec 2009
• Palin and Nixon, 25 Nov 2009
• RN, BHO, and KSM, continued, 21 Nov 2009
• RN & Manson, Obama & Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 19 Nov 2009
• RN, China, and Bowing, 17 Nov 2009
• The First Pacific President?, 14 Nov 2009
• Presidential Leadership, Then and Now, 06 Nov 2009
• Arnold’s Acrostic, 30 Oct 2009
• Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton, and RN, 21 Oct 2009
• The Muse of the Obama White House, 20 Oct 2009
• What Are the Odds That This Story is Fake?, 22 Sep 2009
• Nixon, Kennedy, and Cancer, 28 Aug 2009
• Nixon, Cancer, and Serious Medicine, 24 Aug 2009
• “Angry White Males,” Health Care, And Richard Nixon, 17 Aug 2009
• Nixon’s America, Palin’s America, 02 Aug 2009
• Palin, Nixon, Power, And The GOP, 15 Jul 2009
• Comeback Politics, 12 Jul 2009
• Palin, Nixon, And The “Secret Plan”, 04 Jul 2009
• RN, Apollo, And Obits, 02 Jul 2009
• Superior, 28 Jun 2009
• Leaderless, 12 Jun 2009
• Presidents And Popularity, 15 May 2009
• Follow the Money, Print the Legend, 06 May 2009
• Goldwater And RN, 06 Apr 2009
• The Most Important Visit, 01 Apr 2009
• An Unusual Title For An Article, 28 Mar 2009
• Tuck, 26 Mar 2009
• Blue Orange?, 14 Mar 2009
• Obama, Nixon, And Rush, 04 Mar 2009
• Obama’s Speech And Nixon’s Ghost, 24 Feb 2009
• Tom Daschle’s Cloth Coat, 02 Feb 2009
• Taking the Heat, 29 Jan 2009
• Pardons, 19 Jan 2009
• Reaching Out, 1969 and 2009, 18 Jan 2009
• Two Enlightened Dads, 27 Dec 2008
• RN’s Christmas Present to John McCain, 24 Dec 2008
• Blago Invokes the Old Man, 11 Dec 2008
• Ivies and Intellectuals, 10 Dec 2008
• Giving Thanks, 27 Nov 2008
• Democratic Majorities, Then and Now, 26 Nov 2008
• MoreOftheSame.gov, 07 Nov 2008
• Obama Statistics, 04 Nov 2008
• The Old Man and the Election, 03 Nov 2008
• Quemoy, Matsu, and Joe the Plumber, 16 Oct 2008
• The Old Man and the Debate, 02 Oct 2008
• The Debate in Context, 26 Sep 2008
• Solar Joe, 24 Sep 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 9, 07 Sep 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 8, 16 Aug 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 7, 10 Aug 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 6, 09 Aug 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 5, 26 Jul 2008
• Wisdom from the Old Man, 26 Jul 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 4, 12 Jul 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 3, 09 Jul 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 2, 08 Jul 2008
• Nixonland Nitpick 1, 07 Jul 2008
• Two 1968 Myths in One, 25 Jun 2008
• Still Scapegoating After All These Years, 19 Jun 2008
• Southern Strategy: Myth and Reality, 18 Jun 2008
• Obama’s Odd Line, 05 Jun 2008
• Getting Wrong with 1968, 03 Jun 2008
• Correcting the Record, 19 May 2008
• Sixty Years of Snobbery, 14 Apr 2008
• Nixon and Race, 22 Mar 2008
• Choosing a Veep, 10 Mar 2008
• Word of the Day: “Fatigue”, 05 Mar 2008
• Ohio, Texas, and the Phone, 03 Mar 2008
• Richard Milhous Obama, 28 Feb 2008
• Exploiting a Heart Attack, 18 Feb 2008