New documents reveal that a nuclear attack on North Korea was planned in 1969 after a US spy plane was shot down, with a bomb 20 times the size dropped over Hiroshima.
Richard Nixon
Even Reagan isn’t enough of a Reaganite
The Republican Party has launched so far to the hard right that none of the modern Republican presidents — not Reagan nor Nixon nor Dubya — would be able to be elected today.
A history of US Presidential bookworms
Barack Obama is well known as a “reader” — but he’s hardly the first US President to bury his nose in a book: Nixon loved Tolstoy, Reagen studied the ideas of Milton Friedman, and Clinton liked the “cheap thrill” of a mystery novel.
Throw ‘em a bone: why pollies must love dogs
Forget a wife and 2.5 smiling children, the best political weapon is a dog. Just ask Nixon, Churchill, Clinton or Rudd, says Paul Daley. Plus, an exclusive preview of Abigail and Jasper’s children’s book. They are as troublesome as expected.
The “other” moon landing speech
What if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off the moon? How would the public have been told? Following on from the recent death of President Nixon’s speech writer, William Safire, here is his most eloquent speeches that never was.
Helen Thomas: Obama is a media control freak
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas is becoming increasingly worried about the Obama administration’s attempts to control the press, stating that even Nixon didn’t try to exert the same level of control.
Nixon tapes: the gift that never stops giving
Christopher Hitchens looks at the latest batch of Nixon tapes, inciting him to “consider throwing up things that I don’t even remember having eaten.”
The Nixon Tapes revealed: Vietnam, abortion and more
It’s the latest installment of Nixonalia — 150 hours of secretly recorded tapes shedding light on the period of January to February 1973.
New Nixon tapes released
New private recordings of former US President Richard Nixon have been released, revealing his views on Roe vs. Wade, anti-Semitism, the Paris Treaty and more.
Video of the Day: Nixon has a burrito
The Daily Show makes fun of the media’s OTT reports of Obama ordering a burger.
Condi’s Nixon moment
Asked if waterboarding is torture, Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that “if it was authorised by the President, it didn’t violate our obligations under the Convention against Torture”.
