Michael Ramirez Talks Cartoons

June 14, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Book Review, Nixon Library events, TNN TV | 1 Comment 

Michael Ramirez, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist and opinion editor for Investor’s Business Daily was at the Nixon Library Wednesday where  he discussed the current political landscape and presented a slide show of some of his award winning cartoons.

Afterward, Ramirez signed copies of his new book Everyone Has The Right To My Opinion.

He also gave TNN TV some time for an interview,  discussing the impact of editorial cartooning on the political process:

Bill Bennett Weighs In On GOP Woes, ‘Torture’ Debate

April 28, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Nixon Foundation, Nixon Library, TNN TV | 1 Comment 

The Hon. William J. Bennett was at the Nixon Library Sunday to sign his new book The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America. Bennett also spoke to a crowd of over 400 in the Library’s replica of the White House East Room.

Bennett began his remarks by recalling that President Nixon’s record on civil rights is a legacy worth remembering, capturing the endorsement of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and 30 percent of the African American vote in the 1960 election, the largest proportion a Republican candidate gained in the past 50 years.

In addition to losing key demographics, Bennett noted that though Republicans have ceded the center of gravity in Washington, giving up — by default — California’s 55 electoral votes has done greater damage. “California is the land of Nixon,” Bennett said. “But it’s also the land of Reagan.” Challenging the state to regain the “center of gravity” is important Bennett argues, because it’s where the rest of the country receives their “cultural queues.” While California has consecutively voted Democratic in the past 5 election cycles, its people have voted to keep property taxes “low,” mandated English as the language of instruction, and has kept “marriage between a man and a woman.”

Bennett also reminded the audience of the lessons of Ronald Reagan in what he believes is the divergent age of Obama, explaining that the responsibilities of government is first “security,” that we must acknowledge “that men are free,”  and that the “nanny state”  is not the answer to our economic woes. Bennett didn’t say this would come easy, acknowledging that conservatives have ceded ground in popular culture making it easier for the opposition to fill the political vaccuum. “A society has two important questions,” the philosophy phd recalled in Plato’s dialogues, “what will we teach the children, and who will do the teaching?”

After his speech, Bennett discussed President Obama’s recent release of the ’so called’ tortured memos and opined on the administration’s possible decision to prosecute Bush administration officials on this episode of TNN TV:

Correction: During my Q & A with The Hon. William Bennett, I referred to Robert Mueller as “former” FBI director. Mr. Mueller is the current director.

Huckabee: Michael Steele Should Stay On

March 18, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under TNN TV | Leave a Comment 

On this episode of TNN TV, author of the bestselling Do The Right Thing, Fox News television host, ABC radio commentator, 2008 presidential candidate, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee discusses the recent controversy surrounding Michael Steele at the the RNC and the future of the conservative movement:

Goldberg: Limbaugh Has To Avoid Trap

March 6, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Barack Obama, TNN TV | 1 Comment 

Former CBS correspondent and Fox News media analyst Bernie Goldberg was at the Nixon Library on Wednesday night to discuss and sign his new book, A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media to a crowd of over 500 in the East Room. He also gave TNN a few minutes of his time to discuss bias in the news media, and the Obama administration’s feud with conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Goldberg’s comments about Limbaugh are interesting, explaining that the talk radio show host maybe sacrificing the success of the Republican party for conservative orthodoxy. It’s a “huge plus,” Goldberg explains, if Limbaugh can convince moderates, but if “Rahm Emanuel succeeds in creating an image where they think Rush Limbaugh wants the President to fail period”  and if the unsophisticated voters buy it he will wind up hurting the Republican Party.

Ed Nixon Discusses The Nixon Family

February 19, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under TNN TV | 13 Comments 

RN’s youngest brother Ed Nixon, has just written a new book entitled The Nixons: A Family Portrait, chronicling the life and times of the individuals who helped shape the character and principles of America’s 37th President.

He was at the Nixon Library on President’s Day to discuss it before an audience of several hundred, and gave TNN TV a moment of his time for a one-on-one interview:

Col. Jack Brennan On The Real F/N

February 9, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Frost/Nixon, Nixon Administration figures, TNN TV | 8 Comments 

Former Nixon aide and chief of staff, played by Kevin Bacon in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon reveals the film’s fact and fiction:

Update 9/15/2008, 9:15 am: Col. Brennan also talks with TNN about the origins and use of the President’s helicopter “Marine One:”

Dick Morris on TNN-TV

December 2, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under TNN TV | 1 Comment 

Former Clinton political adviser, Fox News commentator, and author of the New York Times bestseller Fleeced gave a lecture at the Nixon Library Monday. He also made an appearance on this 4th episode of TNN-TV:

Lewis Sorley Discusses Vietnam and Iraq on TNN-TV

October 27, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under TNN TV | Leave a Comment 

On this episode of TNN TV, Military historian and retired Army Lt. Colonel, Dr. Lewis “Bob” Sorley discusses Vietnam, Richard Nixon, and their modern applicability of “lessons learned” in Iraq. Dr. Sorley is author of Arms Transfers under Nixon, Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam and Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times; his newest book Honor Bright, details the history and origins of the honor system at the United States Military Academy.

James Rosen Talks Watergate on TNN-TV

June 21, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Nixon Administration figures, Richard Nixon, TNN TV | Leave a Comment 

Here’s my interview with James Rosen before his lecture at the Nixon Library last Tuesday about his new released book, The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate.

In this second episode of TNN-TV, Rosen talks about the life of John Mitchell, his friendship with Richard Nixon, and his pivotal influence within the Nixon Administration.

Colonel Oliver North on TNN-TV

May 13, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under TNN TV, War on Terror | Leave a Comment 

The following is my interview with Colonel Oliver North following his lecture about his new released book American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam.

In this candid conversation, Colonel North discusses the upcoming Presidential election, and the strategic implications for the United States and Israel in the war against Islamic extremism:

Message from the Executive Director

February 18, 2008 by John H. Taylor | Filed Under TNN TV, The New Nixon | Leave a Comment 

Richard Nixon Library Foundation Executive Director John H. Taylor makes some opening remarks about the The New Nixon Blog.

Transcript

In 1966, during the famous mid-term elections, former Vice President Richard Nixon startled the political world by, first of all, seeming to recover from his 1960 narrow loss to John F. Kennedy, and also calling the outcome exactly, in terms of the number of seats Republicans would gain in Congress and in state houses.

A famous columnist wrote an analysis of Mr. Nixon’s role in that election and he titled it the New Nixon.

In the next two years, “the new Nixon” became a catch phrase for the former Vice President as he prepared to enter primaries 40 years ago this winter and spring.

Some derided him as the “supposedly new Nixon”; others around the candidate himself took up the concept of a new Nixon — someone having served 8 years as Vice President, traveled the world interacting with leaders all over the world as he prepared his next run in 1968, writing his first best seller, Six Crises, and in other ways preparing himself for his wartime leadership beginning in 1969. There may or may not have been a new Nixon. It probably was always the same Nixon in terms of his bedrock commitment to fundamental values of principled pragmatism and responsible, enlightened internationalism in a Cold War-riven world. But whether there was really a new Nixon or not, the phrase still has a lot of currency.

And today, many years after President Nixon has died, as President Nixon’s library prepares to become fully comparable to the other Presidential libraries — because we believe that by 2009 all of President Nixon’s records will be here in Yorba Linda — we are preparing to welcome a new new Nixon. A new Nixon who will be the creature of the scholars who will come to Yorba Linda, study these records without fear, or favor, or bias, and begin to tell the truly nuanced story of the 37^th President’s life and times, his statesmanship and his legacy.

So there is about to be another new Nixon, thanks to the good work of scholars who will come to Yorba Linda and do that work. But Richard Norton Smith, a great Presidential scholar in his own right, put it well when he said: “History is too important to be left to the historians.”

So those who participate in the dialogue on this New Nixon blog will themselves be part of creating the next new Nixon, the nuanced new Nixon — the Nixon who will live for generations to come as an architect of peace, who strove in times of controversy and war and peace to find for his country a better place in the world and for the United States to be a better example to the world.

So welcome to The New Nixon and help us create the latest new Nixon.