PODCAST – 1960: The Making of the President
Something a little different from the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts: a board game review with Jim Williams. A political board game, of course. … Read the full post »
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was elected President of the USA in 1968 and served until his impeachment and resignation from office in 1974.
Master of the Senate: available in a brilliant audio version
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 »
Washington Behind Closed Doors: All the President’s Men meets Dallas
An Emmy award-winning six-part drama series from 1977, Washington Behind Closed Doors tells the tale of fictional US President Richard Monckton. Fictional, but very closely based on the real Richard M. Nixon. … Read the full post »
See what happened when a Disney animated a political advert
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 »
The Unknown Known: trying to get to the truth about Donald Rumsfeld
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 »
When silence isn’t silence: what is really on the 18.5 minute gap in the Watergate tapes
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 »
The Best Man: Gore Vidal’s film about a US Presidential selection contest
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 »
What are the Lib Dem general election prospects? LDN #93
Liberal Democrat Newswire #93 looks at the Liberal Democrat prospects in the general election. … Read the full post »
Tycoon tax: now in force
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
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 »