Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Real West Wing
Regular readers know that every Saturday we look back, via archives I’ve collected through the years, at a key (or at least interesting!) event in presidential history. Today’s original documents come...
View ArticleHope and Change: LBJ and the Strategy for Winning Reelection in 1968
For this Saturday’s trip to the archives we take the WayBack machine to March, 1968 for an inside view of President Lyndon Johnson’s possible reelection strategy, courtesy of an incredibly candid...
View ArticleWhy Brennan Stays
Finally, there is something liberals and conservatives can agree on: CIA director John Brennan must go. So why is he still in office? Even more puzzling – why did the President go out of his way during...
View ArticleA Switch in Time: How Nixon Might Have Survived Watergate
On Jan. 27, 1969, less than a week into the Nixon presidency, Nixon’s chief of staff H. R. Haldeman relayed the following request from President Nixon to White House aide and former Time magazine...
View ArticleTo My Favorite Student in the Class of 2016
It’s that time of year again. Middlebury held its commencement ceremony Sunday, and as I have done ever since I started this blog, I commemorate the event by sitting down on the deck and, while the...
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