Richard Nixon

Checkers: Tricky's Business

Douglas McGrath's play at the Vineyard tracks Richard Nixon's tragically crooked career

L. Ron Hubbard Schools Richard Nixon: Sailing on the Apollo Nov 27 - Dec 3

On November 18, we started a new feature here on Fridays: the Voice has obtained hundreds of copies of L. Ron Hubbard's previously unpublished "Orders of the Day," which he gave to crew members as he sailed the Mediterranean. Our documents cover the period from 1968 to 1971, and this time we're look ... More >>

Great Man Theories: Clint Eastwood on J. Edgar

COMING INTO FOCUS

Last chance to catch Elliott Erwitt's famous photos

Credit Title IX, and Richard Nixon, for a U.S. Women's World Cup Win

​Like a cool shower giving respite from a heat wave, the U.S. women's soccer team rolls on, distracting us from ugly political and economic news and -- for at least a few moments -- bridging the country together. Today's 3-1 victory over France's Violent Femmes secures the U.S. team's positi ... More >>

Pierre Cardin's Maxim's Finally Getting Sold; The Limelight Marketplace Already Done For

​Pierre Cardin's now-defunct Maxim's restaurant at 680 Madison Avenue, which closed back in 2000, is finally being dismantled and sold. [NY Post] Gristedes owner and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis' daughter will marry Richard Nixon's grandson this Saturday at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral ... More >>

Dick Nixon's Buddy Bebe Rebozo Comes Into the Watergate Picture

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 9, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 32 Covering up the cover-up? by Lucian K. Truscott IV In the days immediately following the break-in of Democratic National Party Headquarters at the Watergate in June 1972, Richard M. Nixon met repeated ... More >>

The Horror of NOT Being on the White House Enemies List

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 5, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 27 How come you're not on the list? by Phil Tracy No revelation to come out of the Watergate hearings so far has had such damaging results as the publication of the White House "enemies" list. It strikes t ... More >>

Watergate Just "Seven Bad Boys Who Went Just a Bit Too Far in Their Efforts to Re-elect the President"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 18, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 The commies at Watergate? by Judith Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The major problem with the Watergate trial is that the prosecution has not gotten to the bottom of the sordid affair, because it has ref ... More >>

Jews, Nixon, and the Torture Chamber

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 17, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 33 Jews, Nixon, and the torture chamber By Nat Hentoff As we have been glancingly informed by the daily press, the Nixon drive for the Jewish vote is gathering speed. Among those enlisting in this ventur ... More >>

Bradley Manning Charged With 'Aiding the Enemy'

​U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, 23, who has been locked in solitary confinement for ten months, under conditions that some argue count as torture, has been hit with 22 military charges for his involvement in allegedly passing secret U.S. diplomatic cables to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks organizat ... More >>

March for Peace, or Watch Football?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 4, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 44 Nov. 6: I'm not marching anymore By Phil Tracy Well, it's that time of year again. Crank up the old march machine, it's time for our annual assault on Central Park and the pigeons. Stop the traffic, h ... More >>

Richard Nixon's Racist Tapes: Blacks Will Help America in "500 Years," Only If They're "Inbred"

Racist​Sixteen months before Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States, he was a fan of no one, especially not blacks, Jews, Italians or the Irish. We know this because much of it is on tape, but it's just now that anyone is getting around to hearing the nastiness of his words t ... More >>

When Vets Went on the Spring Offensive Against the Vietnam War

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 29, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 17 The vets & Mayday By Robin Reisig WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A man in dirty green was shouting at me in a language I didn't understand. "Dung lai!" Someone said he was asking for my identification. I said I di ... More >>

The Best Midterm Elections Viral Video, Period: "My Girl's a Republican"

​Just in time for tomorrow's midterm elections, the following video -- by the finest working act in hip-hop sketch comedy, It's The Real (three white, mostly-Jewish guys living on the Upper West Side) -- comes this: "My Girl's A Republican."

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu

The Medium Is the Message in David Fincher's Present-Tense Social Network

Dick Nixon Anoints a College Football National Champion Early

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 8, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 2 The Politics of Pigskin: A Guide to the Bowl Games by Clark Whelton Like it or not, Richard Nixon has had considerable success with his policy of making political goo-goo eyes at the Silent Majority and ... More >>

One Giant Leap for Mankind -- in Central Park

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 24, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 41 The Age of Lunacy On a Muddy Meadow by Steve Lerner The Moon-In on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park last Sunday night came off as the world's largest outdoor multi-media program. Vying for spectator pop ... More >>

Ed Koch Asks Newly-Minted President Richard Nixon to Go Easy on Draft Dodgers

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 13, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 18 Koch Asks Wider C.O. Exemptions President Nixon should take "immediate action to grant exemption from military service to young men who are conscientiously opposed to the Vietnam war, Congressman Edw ... More >>

Richard Nixon's 1968 Victory Begins to Sink In

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 14, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 5 Ask Not What Nixon Will Do For You by Joe Flaherty ...In this dank, stale room Senate candidate Paul O'Dwyer sat in a chair testily denouncing the polls and the projections that on this early hour cla ... More >>

Nixon Haunts GOP Confab in Midtown

​The state Republican convention opened Tuesday afternoon at the Sheraton Towers on Seventh Avenue and the first noise-making inside the hotel was from that old GOP warhorse, Richard Nixon. He came charging into the lobby like a Teabagger chasing down the last liberal. "Let me make it perfectl ... More >>

The Best Man

New Bloomberg Threat and This Time It's To Cuomo

There's something familiar about this third-term Mike Bloomberg...​On a panel last night discussing the city's new political landscape, Times columnist Clyde Haberman suggested to the crowd at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs that the signs so far from Mike Bloomberg are a little om ... More >>

Following Sarah Palin Tomato Attack, a Brief History of Throwing Food

​Isn't it a little harsh for Jeremy Paul Olson to have been incarcerated for throwing tomatoes at Sarah Palin at her Mall of America book signing earlier this week (especially considering that he missed the former Alaska governor entirely)? Gawker thinks so, as it assembles a brief history of ... More >>

Spotted Dick for Frost/Nixon

In a sense, this weekend's Oscars are no different than last weekend's Valentine's Day--a convenient excuse for restaurants and bars to push themed plates and drinks (or teach us to make our own) to combat these lovely economic times we live in. We already mentioned/questioned the "Slumdog Millionai ... More >>

Langella and Sheen Capture a Summit of Egos in Frost/Nixon

Nixon goes from stage to screen, in a deep frost

Sarah Palin Sucks, Sean Penn Rocks

Sorting through trailer trash, trying not to nod off during the Emmys.

Clip Job: I'm Voting for Dick

Clip Job: October 31, 1956

Shooting to Kill

Radical docmaker Emile de Antonio put official history in the crosshairs

Prisoners of the Past

The Brig and Frost/Nixon use yesterday's nightmares to mirror today's reality

Kicking Dick

Nixon and Kissinger in a two-character play

Evolution of a Shrub

New 9-11 [Redacted] Due Soon

Morning Report 1/22/06
Paying Attention

Justice Probe of Spy Leak Could Shield Bush

President gives self excuse not to talk about wiretaps

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

1966–1975 Peace & Protest

From the Summer of Love to Women's Lib, Gay Rights and Black Panthers

A Heartbeat Away

Speculation about a replacement for Dick Cheney just keeps on ticking

It's the Wealth, Stupid

Right-wing class warfare swung the 2004 election

Did America Abandon Vietnam War P.O.W.'s? Part 1

A closer look at an ugly issue

Last Copter Out of Baghdad

Bush Flees Iraq Mess On The Campaign Express

John Dean's Look at Bush

Nix From a Nixonian

MTV Nation

Grown Up All Wrong

Manhattan’s Milosevic

How You Can Do What the Government Won’t: Arrest Henry Kissinger

Kissinger of Death

Letters

Mything in Action