Showing posts with label Richard M. Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard M. Nixon. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Dicky, meet Jeffrey: "I Am Not A Crook: How A Phrase Got A Life Of Its Own."

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Funny dude, that Richard Nixon. From 2013, this explanation. 'I Am Not A Crook': How A Phrase Got A Life Of Its Own ( NPR ) ...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Hunter S. Thompson eulogizes Richard M. Nixon (1994): "He Was a Crook."

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(Wikipedia) Arguably, the finest political obituary in American history. A Facebook friend linked to it yesterday, remarking that he re...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2017

And yes, it SHOULD be a national holiday.

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Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency on August 8, 1974 . I was 14 years old, vacationing with my parents at Mt. Rainier National Pa...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

"Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?"

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The late Hunter S. Thompson ... writing in 1972. "This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Do something fast, or else he'll start drawing up plays.

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Nixon's tricks not in Redskins' playbook , by Jennifer Allen (ESPN)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

"Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s 'Southern Strategy.’"

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The reason why I cannot be a Republican: Neither country-club elites nor social-issue hard liners serve Kool-Aid to my taste. At the same ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Hunter S. Thompson eulogizes Richard M. Nixon: "He Was a Crook."

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(Wikipedia) Arguably, the finest political obituary in American history. It is impossible to read it without laughing aloud. It is eq...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Mitch McConnell is corrected by Charles P. Pierce.

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The culminating disappointment of Indiana's political drift toward quasi-Neanderthal Mussolini cult is that it prevents proper, civilize...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Pierce, Thompson and the Manics on the life of Richard Nixon.

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That's right: One hundred years ago on Wednesday, Richard Nixon was born. The tributes are effusive and deadly accurate, as with Char...