Tag Archives: Nixon

TNN Exclusive: RN’s Health Care Plan More Comprehensive Than Obama’s

Posted on March 25, 2010 by admin

All eyes have been on Washington in the past year as the parties debated President Barack Obama’s shifting versions of national health care. On Tuesday, after a highly questionable series of parliamentary maneuvers, President Obama signed into “law” his health … Continue reading →

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The Little Church In The East Room

Posted on December 18, 2009 by admin

As the first streaks of dawn quietly announced the arrival of morning on Sunday, November 16, 1969, a 35-year old preacher from Ohio named Harold Rawlings had already been awake for a while after a fitful night of what-could-barely-be-called sleep … Continue reading →

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Palin, Nixon, And The “Secret Plan”

Posted on July 4, 2009 by admin

At CQ Politics, Jonathan Allen contrasts Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon.  “Palin doesn’t have Nixon’s interest in, or knowledge of, foreign affairs,” he writes. “Imagine the reaction if Palin suggested she had a “secret plan” to win the war in … Continue reading →

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F/N Gathering Its Rosebuds While, And Where, It May

Posted on December 9, 2008 by admin

As RN often equably observed, his books could always count on at least a couple of hundred thousand sales because the cons —who were eagerly anticipating delicious new Nixonian excesses and outrages— were as likely to buy them as were … Continue reading →

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Gen ‘08

Posted on July 21, 2008 by admin

In the July 30 “New Republic,” Michael Crowley has a thoughtful profile of McCain right-hand man, co-author, and speechwriter Mark Salter. Here’s the 53-year-old Iowan’s challenge as he heads to to his cottage in Maine to work on Sen. McCain’s … Continue reading →

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The Great Pennsylvania Debate – in McKeesport

Posted on April 18, 2008 by admin

Presidential debates, especially the intra-party variety we are witnessing these days, are frequent to the point of becoming common place, if not benign. They seem to prove what Marshall McLuhan said about medium equaling message. The recent gotcha-fest between Hillary … Continue reading →

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