We Still Get to Kick Nixon Around
Fifty years ago Richard Nixon made his famous speech to the press that included “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”
Posts tagged: Watergate
Chuck Colson, Nixon’s Master of Dirty Tricks, Dead at 81
Jailed for obstructing justice, he embraced Christianity and became an advocate for prisoners.
Watergate History: John Dean and Richard Nixon
John Dean had an important meeting with President Richard Nixon on 21 March 1973 — 39 years ago — and it marked beginning of the end to Nixon’s presidency.
Dick Nixon Still Getting Kicked Around
A new book about President Richard Nixon claims he was wife-beating drunk who dabbled in Mafia man-love. But was he a good conservative?
Surprise! New Transcripts Show Nixon Blamed His Enemies
President Nixon, still the victim after all these years.
A Robert Bork Biography
Mr. Hehn has posted a new biography of Robert Bork.
Alexander Haig, Secretary of State Under Reagan, Dead at 85
Alexander Haig, the former general who was Secretary of State when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, has died at age 85.The Washington Post obituary says the cause was “complications from an infection.”
Today in Nixonology
In our new profile of Illinois senator Roland W. Burris we include a link to photos of a his mausoleum — no, he’s not dead — in Chicago’s Oak Woods Ceremony. The sizable monument to Burris lists the senator’s many accomplishments under the heading “Trail Blazer.”