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Nixon's missing 18 1/2 minutes

 Notes Scoured 
 for Watergate Key 

Hope to fill in gaps with cutting-edge forensics

Nov 19, 09 8:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Forensic scientists think their latest tools could solve one of the enduring mysteries of American politics: what was said in the 18 1/2 minutes missing from the Watergate tapes? The answer may lie in the yellow notepad on which Nixon's chief of staff, HR Haldeman, took notes on his meeting... More »

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Watergate • Richard Nixon • forensic science • forensic experts • Watergate missing tape • forensic Watergate

 Great Wall of China 
 'Magical': Obama 

President visits landmark, heads to South Korea

Nov 18, 09 4:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon and every president since then, Barack Obama today wound up his visit to China with a stop at the Great Wall, where he stoked his hosts' pride in ancient Chinese civilization by reflecting on the wall's enduring nature. "It's magical," Obama... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Richard Nixon • Great Wall of China • obama great wall • obama china

etiquette lesson

Obama Bow: Right Idea, Wrong Bow

Even Nixon bowed to the Japanese emperor —but he did it better

Nov 16, 09 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - A friend of ABC’s Jake Tapper would like to clear up some misconceptions about President Obama’s bow to the Japanese emperor: First, “the right is wrong about Obama’s bow.” It’s not an “unprecedented” display of subservience from an American president—Richard Nixon bowed... More »

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Japan • Richard Nixon • customs • President Obama • state visit • Emperor Akihito • bow • Obama bows • obama bows to japanese emperor

OPINION

 In Obama's Dover Trip, 
 Echoes of Nixon 

War kept both awake; Nixon's 4am walkabout more 'heartrending'

Oct 29, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s predawn trip to welcome home fallen Americans today has echoes of Richard Nixon’s 4am stroll to the Lincoln Memorial in 1970, hours before a huge anti-war protest. “What both Obama and Nixon had in common was that a war kept them awake,” Amy Davidson... More »

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Richard Nixon • Dover Air Force Base • Vietnam War • caskets • President Obama

Joe Conason

'Nixonian' Applies to Fox, Not Obama

For starters, Tricky Dick henchman Roger Ailes runs the network

Oct 23, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pundits have been decrying the Obama administration’s “Nixonian” attack on Fox News—and that’s ridiculous, writes Joe Conason of Salon. The president’s within his rights to avoid or criticize an organization that won’t treat him fairly, and that definitely describes Fox. The network is run... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington Post • Richard Nixon • Fox News • Roger Ailes • John Mitchell • conservative media • Katharine Graham

Charles Krauthammer

 Obama Assault 
 on Fox News  
 Is 'Nixonian' 


White House needs to recognize the legitimacy of opposition

Oct 23, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is over the line in its war on Fox News, seeking not only to criticize it, but to delegitimize and marginalize it, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. “There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics,” he argues, but they do violate “... More »

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Richard Nixon • Fox News • media bias • Obama administration • liberal media • Charles Krauthammer • conservative media

OPINION

In 2012, GOP Goes With Heart (Palin) Over Head (Romney)

Who knows, maybe her star power will make her the next Reagan

Oct 20, 09 7:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - No matter what kind of gains Republicans make in the midterm elections next year, it’s going to be tough to unseat President Obama—and that’s why the GOP is going to choose Sarah Palin, its heart’s preferred candidate, over Mitt Romney, its head’s favorite. Or as... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Barry Goldwater • Richard Nixon • Ronald Reagan • Republican Party • Bob Dole • Sarah Palin • incumbents • Election 2012 • President Obama • midterm elections • presidential nominee

obituary

Times Columnist William Safire Dead at 79

Ex-Nixon speechwriter, Pulitzer winner was forceful voice on right

Sep 27, 09 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire died today outside Washington, the paper reports. He was 79 and suffered from cancer. A onetime speechwriter for Richard Nixon, Safire, a self-described "libertarian conservative," used his background as a reporter and love for English usage to punch up his... More »

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cancer • New York Times • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Richard Nixon • journalism • death • grammar • political coverage • word usage • William Safire • New York Times Magazine • wordplay

OPINION

Health Care Debate Makes Me Miss Nixon: Krugman

Back in his day, we could get things done

Aug 31, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paul Krugman is a die-hard liberal, but lately, “I find myself missing Richard Nixon,” he writes in the New York Times. He may have been "the worst person other than Dick Cheney ever to control the executive branch," but his health care reform plan was... More »

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Richard Nixon • lobbying • health care reform • Paul Krugman

 Nixon Had 'Crude Swingers' 
 Teddy and Joan Followed 

"She was going to wear hot pants but Teddy told her she couldn't"

Aug 28, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Nixon hoped to embarrass Ted Kennedy in a scandal and huddled with aides in 1971 to make sure people were keeping an eye on him, the AP reports. "You watch, I predict something more is going to happen," Nixon tells HR Haldeman and press chief Ron Ziegler... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Richard Nixon • Joan Kennedy

(Newser) - President Obama's job-approval rating slipped to 50% in Gallup poll results out today, a new low for the 10-month-old administration, the Los Angeles Times reports. The drawn-out health care reform debate apparently is dragging down the number, which hit 69% after the inauguration. The disapproval number is 43%. "It's... More »

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Bush administration • Bill Clinton • Richard Nixon • Clinton administration • George HW Bush • Gerald Ford • approval ratings • George W. Bush • Gallup poll • Gallup • Obama administration • President Obama

OPINION

 Enough Already: 
 Kennedy Was No Hero 


Aug 27, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - You wouldn’t know it from the tearful plaudits in the "echo chamber of the mainstream media," but Ted Kennedy was no hero, Howie Carr writes for the Boston Herald. Kennedy was actually a ruthless partisan—he accused Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork of wanting "segregated lunch... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Robert Bork • Richard Nixon • partisanship • Senate confirmation hearings • hypocrisy • Gerald Ford • Chappaquiddick • US Supreme Court • senator

Analysis

 Obama TV Has 
 Become a Snore 


Jul 29, 09 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Say what you want about President Nixon, but at least his press conferences were entertaining. “It was the Colosseum, and everybody’s thumb was down,” recalls staffer Pat Buchanan. “It was something worth watching.” The same can’t be said of President Obama’s all-too-frequent appearances.... More »

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Barack Obama • media • Richard Nixon • press conference • Pat Buchanan • political strategy • President Obama

Plan Could Divine Missing Watergate Minutes, CSI-Style

Archivist pushes plan to uncover lost pages' imprints

Jul 28, 09 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Watergate hobbyist has a plan to discover what was discussed during the 18½ minutes erased from a taped conversation between President Nixon and his chief of staff after the break-in. Phil Mellinger doesn’t want to examine the tape itself; that's been done without success. He says the answer... More »

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Watergate • Richard Nixon • National Security Agency • mystery • tape • National Archives • paper • documents • Phil Mellinger

(Newser) - A lot of things would have been better in America if Walter Cronkite had been elected vice president in 1972, writes Frank Mankiewicz in the Washington Post, and it could have happened. Mankiewicz was the political director for George McGovern’s campaign, and, “armed with a poll showing... More »

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presidential campaign • Richard Nixon • vice president • Vietnam War • George McGovern • Walter Cronkite • vice presidential candidate • Frank Mankiewicz • 1972 • Thomas Eagleton

(Newser) - Nixon henchman G. Gordon Liddy branded Barack Obama an "illegal alien" on Hardball yesterday, dodging a barrage of evidence and documents cited by Chris Matthews that the US president was born in Hawaii. Liddy insisted that Obama's "invalid" birth certificate couldn't be used to get a passport or... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Richard Nixon • Hardball • Chris Matthews • Hawaii • G. Gordon Liddy • birther • after birth

(Newser) - An auction today of the storied Watergate Hotel drew more than 150 spectators, media attention from around the world, and not a single bidder willing to pony up the necessary $25 million, reports the Washington Post. The German bank that foreclosed on the property took back the 12-story hotel and... More »

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Watergate • Washington DC • Richard Nixon • auction • hotel

(Newser) - As Barack Obama arrives in Moscow for his toughest diplomatic challenge since taking office, the Guardian looks back on earlier US-Russia showdowns to gauge who had the upper hand.
  • Kennedy vs. Khrushchev, 1961: The ultimate cold war summit, shadowed by the space race and the Berlin Wall. A draw,
... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • John F. Kennedy • Richard Nixon • Mikhail Gorbachev • Ronald Reagan • Russian president • George W. Bush • Nikita Khrushchev • Leonid Brezhnev



 Graham Ripped 
 'Synagogue 
 of Satan' on 
 Nixon Tapes 

Nixon: Jews' failure to 'behave themselves' indicated a 'death wish'

Jun 25, 09 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Billy Graham blamed Jews from the "Synagogue of Satan" for pornography in a newly released 1973 conversation with Richard Nixon, USA Today reports. The men, in a discussion about anti-Semitism and Jewish opposition to Christian evangelical efforts, agreed that Jews needed to "behave themselves" to avoid unleashing a... More »

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Jews • Billy Graham • Richard Nixon • stereotypes • evangelicals • anti-Semitism • Anti-Defamation League • Nixon tapes

Nixon Asked for More 'Attractive Women' in GOP

New tapes: He thought abortions were OK in interracial pregnancies

Jun 23, 09 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Nixon felt the Republican Party needed more “attractive women,” newly released Oval Office tapes reveal. In a phone conversation with George HW Bush (then Republican National Committee chairman) Nixon describes seeing two “very attractive women” in the South Carolina legislature, the Los Angeles Times reports. “... More »

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abortion • race • Republican • women • GOP • rape • Richard Nixon • George HW Bush • Sarah Palin

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