Oh, To Be In Beirut! 
The New York Times recently turned over a substantial chunk of it’s op/ed page to exploring the murky Reagan administration intervention in Beirut, where hundreds of Marines died.
The lesson learned?   It was terrorism, and the giant who tumbled the Berlin Wall with a single breath  turned and ran.
But some hold […]

The New Nixon blog is a last holdout for Nixon loyalists, the brave band who followed him into exile and the world of deferential memorializing.
Frank Gannon is of this band of brothers [Diane Sawyer and Monica Crowley having gone to glory elsewhere], and in the New Nixon Gannon displays once more the epic […]

Having already provided the gifts which say “I Love the 70s” for Christmas
and the Fourth of July , Jimmy Carter is bringing his word wrangling magic to Mothers Day with a book about, um, his Mom.
A Remarkable Mother hits the shelves April 1.

Brace Yourself for Disappointment, Lad
Canadian pol Bob “He Too Has Known Disappointment”Rae takes us back to our Nation’s Capitol in the fifties. Dick Cheney’s Fortress of Solitude at the Naval Observatory was decades away, and Vice Presidents walked amongst us.
Or at least resided. Rae says he served as Nixon’s paperboy, and […]

From the Journal of vikisu202:
 

“the last few days have been essentially uneventful
monday: I went to the Richard Nixon Library with Neel, oliver, and michael. Michael was making completely inappropriate sexual jokes as usual. We only went for the extra credit for gov. Ironically, the only exhibit we wanted to see was watergate and […]