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British TV personality David Frost will be honored at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews with former President Richard Nixon and other newsmakers. Complete Story...
President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon's playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty.
It seems history won't rest until someone fills in that 18 1/2-minute Watergate gap.
A Manhattan lawyer who is Richard Nixon's son-in-law is the new leader of the New York Republicans.
A U.S. marshal who served former President Richard Nixon with two Watergate-related subpoenas at his California home has died.
Paul Newman liked to joke about his trademark blue eyes, musing that if they turned brown his career might be in jeopardy, and was delighted to learn he was on Richard Nixon's enemies list, the Academy Award-winning actor's daughter said Monday.
On April 9, 1971, President Richard Nixon conferred with aides on how to get Ted Kennedy followed, or "covered," in hopes of catching the senator doing something scandalous.
President Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch Kennedy cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to recruit Secret Service agents to spill secrets on the senator's behavior.
Two years before the coup that toppled the leftist leader of Chile, President Richard Nixon and Brazilian President Emilio Medici discussed coordinated intervention in that nation and Cuba, according to a newly declassified document.
Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91.
With an air of desperation, a hunkered down White House hatched a plan to save Richard Nixon's presidency as the Watergate crisis began to consume it: Demonize the prosecutor in the eyes of lawmakers and the people.
The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison said his group would not have risen to power in the 1970s if it weren't for the policies of former U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top diplomat, Henry Kissinger.
Even those who’ve never cracked open a comic book know “Watchmen” is on the way. The hype machine’s been in overdrive for the last year, helped by fan enthusiasm and a headline-grabbing court case that threatened its release. Now it’s nearly impossible to avoid the early reviews and raves for the film adaptation of what’s often called “the greatest graphic novel ever written.” For the cool kids in the comic book world, the story of the fight for justice in a climate of global fear is beyond reproach. “Watchmen” is worth the price of admission if only to witness an effort to faithfully bring those pages to the big screen.
Former IRS Commissioner Donald C. Alexander, who clashed with President Richard Nixon over attempts to use tax information against political enemies, has died. He was 87.
The women of "The View" yukked it up with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, mussed his often-mocked helmet of hair and asked him to do his impersonation of President Richard Nixon.
It promises to be a colorful Academy Awards season when films featuring Richard Nixon and Batman could go toe-to-toe for best picture.
For all the disclosures former President Richard Nixon makes in "Frost/Nixon," director Ron Howard has one of his own.
In the last months of his administration, President Lyndon Johnson voiced worry over the Vietnam peace talks and stridently suggested that associates of Richard Nixon were attempting to keep South Vietnam away from the table until after the 1968 election, recordings of telephone conversations released Thursday show.
"No holds barred," Richard Nixon urges to David Frost as the two prepare to sit down for a series of interviews in 1977.
You know how a comedian can completely ruin his own joke by stopping to explain the punch line? The filmmakers behind “Frost/Nixon” do the same thing, undercutting some of the film’s most powerful moments by tossing in scenes where the characters tell the audience what it has already seen.
Some tidbits culled from the 90,000 pages of documents that offer insight into the power players of Richard Nixon's administration and re-election committee. The documents were released Tuesday by the National Archives' Nixon Library.
In December 1972, when a less complicated president might have been relishing a big re-election victory a month earlier, Richard Nixon had enemies on his mind.
In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost.
Can the princess of pop make a comeback? My said “yes, definitely,” and who am I to disagree with a toy? returns with a full head of hair and “Circus,” her latest album. She’s also set to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, Dec. 2. (On sale Dec. 2)
Weary and recovering from illness, Richard Nixon looked so bad in his TV debate with John Kennedy that his mom called afterward to see if he was all right. Forty years later, Al Gore loudly sighed, shrugged in exasperation and got in George W. Bush's face in a display of pique and impatience.
Editorial - President Obama in China - NYTimes.comEver since Richard Nixon opened the door in 1972, all presidents have faced a balancing act with China. For President Obama, who arrived in China on Sunday, the challenge is even tougher and more urgent.
Racism in the Republican PartyConor Friedersdorf on how the GOP can repair its image—and the myths the left perpetuates.
He's the presidential pooches' right-hand manDale Haney has kept the White House grass green and the flowers blooming for 40 years, but he's cultivated something else just as important: relationships with the presidents' pooches. Haney has tended to all of them from Richard Nixon's King Timahoe to Barack Obama's Bo.
He's the presidential pooches' right-hand manDale Haney has kept the White House grass green and the flowers blooming for 40 years, but he's cultivated something else just as important: relationships with the presidents' pooches. Haney has tended to all of them from Richard Nixon's King Timahoe to Barack Obama's Bo.
TX-Gov Rick Perry Compared to Nixon in Cover-Up of Possible Execution of an Innocent ManTX-Gov: Rick Perry Compared to Nixon in Cover-Up of Todd Willingham's Execution The Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg asks: "Is Perry pulling a Nixon?" It would be a dangerous political liability for any candidate: The possibility that, as governor, Rick Perry presided over t …
Conservatism Is Dead!Digging deep into the roots and evolution of the American conservative movement, Sam Tanenhaus talks with Bill Moyers about why he believes that conservatism is dead and how it might yet come back to life.
A Sensible Approach to Health Insurance Reform Harkens Back to Nixon-Ted Kennedy Deal"So what would this deal look like? Something like this: -- Universal coverage. Finally, a requirement that every American purchase a minimum, a basic health insurance plan.
Missing Richard Nixon - Paul Krugman New York Times Op-Ed ColumnistMany of the retrospectives on Ted Kennedy's life mention his regret that he didn't accept Richard Nixon's offer of a bipartisan health care deal. The moral some commentators take from that regret is that today's health care reformers should do what Mr.
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers, take their life."The American political establishment's love affair with illness-profit, treating health care as a commodity and health care access as a class-tiered privilege would be a rather vulgar anecdote, if it were not for the collateral damage.
Right Wing Will Lie, Cheat and Steal Their Way Into Killing Health-Care Reform It infuriates me when I see people like these distort and twist the truth about healthcare reform - for what reason? I mean, they're pretty much the scrubs of the right wing, a bunch of has-beens and wannabes.
Frank Rich New York Times Op-Ed Columnist - And That's Not the Way It IsWHO exactly was the competition in the race to be the most trusted man in America? Lyndon Johnson? Richard Nixon?
The Cold War's Hot Kitchen EXACTLY one-half century ago, one of the great confrontational moments of the cold war seized the world's attention: Nikita Khrushchev, bombastic anti-capitalist leader of the Soviet Union, and Richard Nixon, vice president of the United States with the reputation of a hard-lin …
President Nixon Was Prepared for Apollo Disaster with Contingency SpeechThe triumphant success of NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago is a familiar story to most Americans, but it may be a surprise to some that then-President Richard Nixon was ready for disaster.
It is now forty years since man fulfilled the dream of Robert Kennedy and landed a man on the moon in the Apollo series of missions. It was Apollo 11 that made the dream come true.
Why Sarah Palin is No Richard NixonIn the moments after she announced she would resign the governorship of Alaska, MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan compared Sarah Palin to Richard Nixon in 1966.
According to the bloviator in chief and current head of the Republican Party, It seems that Michael Jackson reached the apex of his career under Ronald Reagan and went through his downfall under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (who Rush now deems to have been a total disaster).
Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like ObamaFollowing a testy exchange during today's briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press.
Nixon's daughter contributed to ObamaOne of the former president's daughters, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, apparently supports a Democrat in this year's presidential contest - Barack Obama.
More Nixon tapes, records being made publicThe government is opening another window into Richard Nixon's shattered presidency.
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal. In the age of Barack Obama, both the Republican Party as well as the South appear marginalized and out of step with the rest of America.
Mega-egos - History is full of mega-egos, and they flourish today in America.Let us consider the mega-ego, a sub-species of humanity that has always been with us, and flourishes today in America. We know them from the media and from our surroundings.
Watergate under the bridge: how the New York Times missed the scoop of the centuryFor 37 years Robert Smith and Robert Phelps watched from the sidelines as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were showered with Pulitzers, book and movie contracts and fame for their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal.
Cambodia Deja Vu: the Invasion of PakistanWill a special forces officer think that guerrillas—with refuge in an inaccessible and unconquered region, amid a tri-national ethnic population of some 40 million fellow Pathans—can be beaten by guided bombs or special forces raids? Or that an unenthusiastic Pakistani army w …
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