Turns out I have another commitment this Sunday afternoon, so I’m gonna have to reschedule this week’s book discussion (“The Sky’s the Limit”) to Monday evening, March 14, at 8pm EDT (Eastern Daylight-Savings Time). The other alternative, since I know we’ll all be sleep-deprived and extra-cranky Monday, would be to set up a “placeholder” post …
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NIXONLAND, Week 6: “Cruise Ship” & “Fed-Up-Niks”
And yet more evidence (as if it were necessary) that nothing in today’s news is new: In October [1967] the formation of an anti-antiwar group was announced by WWII hero General Omar Bradley and former senator Paul Douglas.[…] [Members of the new Citizens’ Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam] included Harry Truman and Dwight …
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NIXONLAND, Week 5: “The Bombing” & “Summer of Love”
By the beginning of 1967, the war in Vietnam had ended America’s ‘consensus’ for good. Is there a word that means the opposite of nostalgia — something to describe the acrid taste at the back of one’s tongue when confronted with a vivid retelling of events recalled with loathing? Although, since I was too young …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread
__ Best wishes and stout companions to all attending today’s solidarity rallies, and condolences to those kept away by inclement weather and the myriad other irritations of daily life. __ As a reminder, this week’s book discussion of NIXONLAND involves Chapters Eight and Nine, a mere thirty pages. Come join the conversation Sunday at 4pm …
Sunday Night Open Thread: NIXONLAND Query
A question for those who are reading along in NIXONLAND: Two chapters or three for next week’s discussion? “The Bombing” and “Summer of Love” are only 30 pages between them, but it’s not easy reading for those of us who lived through the period Perlstein’s describing. On the one hand, I don’t want to dump …
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NIXONLAND, Week 4: “School Was in Session” & “Batting Average”
The Times had sacralized a Nixon con job. The fuse had been lit. And now, the fireworks began. Why there are book groups: It’s getting harder and harder for me to keep reading, because for all his multitudinous flaws, I’ve always had a soft spot for Lyndon Baines Johnson. We won’t see a dispassionate LBJ …
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NIXONLAND III: “Reagan” & “Long Hot Summer”
Herewith Nixon takes great strides in assembling his retrograde cast of trolls, thugs, and shills — Pat Buchanan, Bill Safire, the Haldeman/Ehrlichman ‘twins’, Maurice Stans — the Merry CREEPSters who would do so much damage to our country for the next forty years and counting. But I didn’t know that the smart money, or at …
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