Tag: Richard Nixon
I’ve been doing archival research the last week in the Bob Packwood Papers. The thing about doing archival research is that you never know what weirdness you are going to find. That’s espe
We really are living through Nixon redux. Except with an idiot playing the part of Nixon and a totally plaint congress. The Trump White House and its allies, over the past 18 months, assembled detaile
Let’s learn more about the Last Real Liberal President Unlike Neoliberal Sellout Barack Obama! Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president who made a promise to close the U.S-Mexican border to il
I got nothing this morning. It’s just a waiting game now, unless you are getting people out to vote, which makes you awesome. But here’s some of the great campaign buttons of American pres
This is the grave of Richard Nixon. There is no real reason to talk about what a terrible person Richard Nixon was. You already know this. I will say the phrase of his grave may be true but has absolu
I am not in the habit of reviewing older books I read. But I recently read Matthew Lassiter’s 2006 book, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Lassiter strongly questions
Above: The two kindest, gentlest men in American history. What did Richard Nixon think of Hillary Clinton? Well, this is probably about the easiest question in the world to answer. Mr. Nixon praised B
As I’ve mentioned before, the Nixon Library is Disneyland for cynical left-wing historians. It’s located in boring ol’Yorba Linda, Nixon’s birthplace. Turns out this was very d