Richard Nixon was elected President of the USA in 1968 and served until his impeachment and resignation from office in 1974.
This is from the 1952 US Presidential election, animated by Roy Disney, nephew of Walt. Quite fun – and also a healthy reminder about slipping into believing that politics now is awful compared to an imagined previous Golden Age. … Read the full post »
Having previously made the brilliant film Fog of War about Robert McNamara, American Defense Secretary during the Vietnam war, Errol Morris turned to another high profile controversial figure from the US, Donald Rumsfeld. … Read the full post »
One of the signature moments of the Watergate scandal was the discovery of an 18.5-minute gap on a White House recording of a meeting with Richard Nixon. … Read the full post »
Written by Gore Vidal, The Best Man unsurprisingly takes a caustic view of politics, but also takes a realistic one and one that is still very resonant today. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #93 looks at the Liberal Democrat prospects in the general election. … Read the full post »
It’s hardly breaking or surprising news to say that Robert Caro’s Master of the Senate, a volume of biography covering Lyndon Johnson’s time as Majority Leader of the US Senate, is as brilliant and enjoyable as it is long. But… … Read the full post »
A little quietly, the good ship HMS Tycoon Tax slid off the policy speculation slipway and into the waters of the real world with the start of the tax year earlier this month. … Read the full post »
Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened, edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale, is the third in a series of collections of ‘what if’ histories. … Read the full post »
Welcome to today’s tax irony corner: that tycoon tax pushed by Nick Clegg is a British equivalent of the US Alternative Minimum Tax. … Read the full post »
British political commentators love looking to the US. It’s why mention “TV leader debates” and you won’t have to wait long until someone mentions the 1960 JFK versus Nixon affair but you’ll have to wait an awful long time until someone mentions the earlier 1950s pioneering effort in Sweden. … Read the full post »