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Richard Nixon

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    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18, we started a new feature here on Fridays: the Voice has obtained hundreds of copies of L. Ron Hubbard's previously unpublished "Orders of the Day," which he gave to crew members as he sailed the Mediterranean.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 >>

  • Film

    November 9, 2011

    Great Man Theories: Clint Eastwood on J. Edgar

    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18, we started a new feature here on Fridays: the Voice has obtained hundreds of copies of L. Ron Hubbard's previously unpublished "Orders of the Day," which he gave to crew members as he sailed the Mediterranean.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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 10, 2011

    COMING INTO FOCUS

    Last chance to catch Elliott Erwitt's famous photos

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    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."

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2010

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu

    ​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 >>

  • Film

    September 22, 2010

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2010

    The Best Man

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film

    December 3, 2008

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

    Nixon goes from stage to screen, in a deep frost

  • Columns

    September 23, 2008

    Sarah Palin Sucks, Sean Penn Rocks

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

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Clip Job: I'm Voting for Dick

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

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2008

    Clip Job: October 31, 1956

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

  • Film

    April 24, 2007

    Shooting to Kill

    Radical docmaker Emile de Antonio put official history in the crosshairs

  • Theater

    April 24, 2007

    Prisoners of the Past

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

  • Theater

    October 3, 2006

    Kicking Dick

    Nixon and Kissinger in a two-character play

  • News

    April 25, 2006

    Evolution of a Shrub

    Nixon and Kissinger in a two-character play

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2006

    New 9-11 [Redacted] Due Soon

    Nixon and Kissinger in a two-character play

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2006

    Morning Report 1/22/06
    Paying Attention

    Nixon and Kissinger in a two-character play

  • News

    December 27, 2005

    Justice Probe of Spy Leak Could Shield Bush

    President gives self excuse not to talk about wiretaps

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

    The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1966–1975 Peace & Protest

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

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    A Heartbeat Away

    Speculation about a replacement for Dick Cheney just keeps on ticking

  • News

    November 2, 2004

    It's the Wealth, Stupid

    Right-wing class warfare swung the 2004 election

  • News

    February 17, 2004
  • News

    January 6, 2004

    Last Copter Out of Baghdad

    Bush Flees Iraq Mess On The Campaign Express

  • News

    June 10, 2003

    John Dean's Look at Bush

    Nix From a Nixonian

  • NYC Life

    August 28, 2001

    MTV Nation

    Grown Up All Wrong

  • News

    August 14, 2001

    Manhattan’s Milosevic

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

  • Books

    May 29, 2001

    Kissinger of Death

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

  • Specials

    September 26, 2000

    Letters

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

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Sanctioned Sadism

    Why the Right Needs the Homeless

  • Film

    August 3, 1999

    Mything in Action

    Why the Right Needs the Homeless

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