Richard Nixon was elected President of the USA in 1968 and served until his impeachment and resignation from office in 1974.
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 »
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 »
A fascinating contemporary news reports on Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign, complete with reference to a shredder for destroying documents. … 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 »
There are two simple tests I have for books that recount events I was in some way involved in: do they accurately retell events that I have direct first-hand knowledge of and do they tell me something new about events I was one step removed from? … Read the full post »