Showing posts with label Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nixon. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Trump, Nixon, Clinton

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Many  posts have  discussed   impeachment , including the  impeachment  of  former officials . At The Bulwark, Jill Lawrence compares Trump ...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Tariff Power

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Many   posts  have dealt with  tariffs  and  trade . Philip Wallach at AEI: The Congress of a new generation doubled down on presidential l...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Trump v. Freedom of Expression

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Ted Johnson at Deadline: In an early morning rant, Donald Trump went off on Seth Meyers ‘ late-night NBC show, declaring that “ Comcast sh...
Monday, December 23, 2024

The Checkers Speech

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  Richard Nixon made an early, innovative use of television in 1952 . He had a political fund -- what we would today call a PAC -- and oppon...
Monday, December 2, 2024

The Term of the FBI DIrector

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Andrew Kent, Susan Hennessey, Matthew Kahn Why Did Congress Set a Ten-Year Term for the FBI Director? Lawfare, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Secti...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Ford's Oath

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Many   posts  have discussed   oaths of office . Fifty years ago today, Gerald Ford became president after the resignation of Richard Nixon....
Saturday, October 7, 2023

War in Israel

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Hamas has attacked Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.  In 1973, Nixon saved Israel.  In 2009 Jason Maoz wrote in Commenta...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

National Archives and Presidential Records

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  Jacqueline Alemany, Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey at WP: For most of American history, presidents kept their own papers and their person...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The People Rate the Presidents

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 Matthew Smith at YouGov: The respective excellence of US presidents is always being debated . Many academics have put together rankings ov...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Nixon Announces that JFK Has Won

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On January 6, 1961, after the official counting of the electoral votes in a joint session of Congress, Vice President Richard Nixon announce...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Virtual Debate, 1960

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"I'm Bill Shadel ABC News...The 2 candidates will not be sharing same platform. In NY John F Kennedy. Separated by 3,000 miles in L...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Bad Conversation Between Nixon and Reagan

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Tim Naftali at The Atlantic : The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governo...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Nixon and Father's Day

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Danna Bell at LOC:  "Father’s Day was not officially celebrated nationally until 1966 when Public Law 89-450 was enacted. This law onl...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Operation Intercept

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Emily Tamkin at WP: Launched in 1969 and lasting just 20 days, Operation Intercept was ostensibly meant to stem the flow of illegal drugs ,...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

What Makes an Effective President?

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At The Washington Examiner , David Drucker asked former Secretary of State George Shultz: what makes an effective president? A key is to ...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Self-Pardon

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Jessica Levinson at Vox: As is the case with a number of important constitutional issues, the answer to the question here of whether or no...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Nixon Checked Out on 12/6/73

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As impeachment talks edges into the mainstream, it is worth remembering how Nixon handled it. At Research and Politics , Matthew N. Beckma...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Trump's Predecessors

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At Vox, Matt Grossmann notes that Trump unsuccessfully sought the Reform Party nomination in 2000, What did Trump learn from his first p...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Moonshot

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President Obama has compared the search for a cancer cure to the moon shot. PZ Myers writes at ScienceBlogs: Everyone admires John F. Ke...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Moon, Cancer, Nixon, Obama

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"Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer . Last month, he worked with this Congress to ...