Richard Nixon

Noemie Emery on the year that all the political nightmares came true.

The King, who receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump Friday, was basically Nixon’s Kanye.

The King, who receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump Friday, was basically Nixon’s Kanye.

The King, who receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump Friday, was basically Nixon’s Kanye.

Last week, I wrote that I thought Donald Trump was dangerous but that it would be a “tragic mistake” to remove him. Here’s why: The 25th Amendment. There’s been a lot of talk recently about invoking that amendment in order to remove Trump from office.

Robert Mueller was supposed to be fired by now. That was, at the end of 2017, the fervent hope of both Democrats eager for a Saturday Night Massacre rerun and of some burn-it-all-down fans of the president. They saw the document demands by GOP lawmakers and their challenges to the impartiality of…

Poor David Copperfield, to add to the other humiliations of his boyhood, at school is forced, for reasons too elaborate to go into here, to wear a sign that reads, “Take Care of Him. He Bites.” I have been thinking of that sign in connection with a sign I should like to make for myself that reads:…

I used to have this annual argument at Christmas with my brother-in-law, a well-regarded film editor in Hollywood. I would arrive brimming with complaints about a movie like Argo, said to be “based on actual events” but with an entirely fictitious Keystone Kops-like airport chase scene. I would…

I used to have this annual argument at Christmas with my brother-in-law, a well-regarded film editor in Hollywood. I would arrive brimming with complaints about a movie like Argo, said to be “based on actual events” but with an entirely fictitious Keystone Kops-like airport chase scene. I would…

President Trump’s embrace of the conservative agenda has healed one rift in the Republican agenda. But he’s exacerbated another with his latest tweets, one featuring a video in which he clotheslines a “CNN” character, the other attacking MSNBC commentator Mika Brzezinski.

Amateur psychology is best avoided in a biography, but in a life of Richard Nixon, an author probably cannot help but indulge in it. In his new book, Richard Nixon: The Life, author John A. Farrell employs armchair diagnosis just enough to capture the flavor of one of the most bizarre men to ever…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior editor Andrew Ferguson on the Trump transition chaos, and how it compares to that of Nixon's transition to power.

After all the wild stories in an unpredictable year, we are now at last moving into a news cycle that is reassuringly predictable, with discoveries as foreseeable and unstoppable as the coming of the cherry blossoms in April or the choking of the Caps in May. Suddenly, we are told, The Presidential…

After all the wild stories in an unpredictable year, we are now at last moving into a news cycle that is reassuringly predictable, with discoveries as foreseeable and unstoppable as the coming of the cherry blossoms in April or the choking of the Caps in May. Suddenly, we are told, The Presidential…

The news that Hillary Clinton's campaign maintained lists of journalists for friendly leaks and helpful advice—Maggie Haberman and John Harwood of the New York Times, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, etc.—is not news, exactly. Some would argue that the more interesting story would be a list of…

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Hillary Clinton was in high spirits at a rally in California Wednesday, throwing up a Nixon-esque peace sign and laughing heartily, hours after an audit revealed that she broke federal rules with her use of a private email server.

A new advertisement from the anti-Hillary Clinton super PAC American Crossroads seizes on recent comparisons between the Democratic front-runner and Richard Nixon.

On Thursday, Douglas Brinkley, author of "The Nixon Tapes: 1973," joined Neil Cavuto to talk about similarities between Hillary Clinton and President Richard Nixon. 

I've suggested before that 2016 is beginning to look more and more like 1968. This is true in terms of the presidential contests—on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders is Eugene McCarthy, Hillary Clinton is Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden will be Hubert Humphrey, and (the big question!) Elizabeth Warren…

For some reason, the president will be honoring a football team at the White House today.  It is not quite football season, yet.  The team in question has not been a team for a long time, and there is no particular anniversary occasion.  This is not the fiftieth year since it achieved glory or…

Peter Flanigan--investment banker, philanthropist, aide to Richard Nixon, and veteran--died this week at the age of 90. Bloomberg has the story:

The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, "Richard Milhous Obama," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to acknowledge. The estimable Victor Davis Hanson has weighed in, defending against liberal dissents the…

Vietnam veteran and ex-Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Isolation) made a stunning impression in his audition for the role of secretary of defense yesterday, though it was not quite the one that he wished. "Though he was being asked about things he had said over the course of the past 15 years, it was what…

Over a decade ago, Joe Loconte profiled Chuck Colson for THE WEEKLY STANDARD:

While he couldn’t resist exaggerating a little for effect, the longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer had a point when he observed that, all too often, great movements “start as a cause, evolve into a business, and end up a racket.” Consider three of the major social crusades that reshaped modern…

It’s widely reported that Charles Colson once said he'd walk over his grandmother to get Richard Nixon elected to a second term. In the Nixon White House he was considered smart, effective, and ruthless—Nixon's "hatchet man." Then came Watergate, a prison sentence, and a conversion nearly as…

Since 1963 Theodore C. Sorensen has been subsisting on his eight-year career as a ghostwriter for John F. Kennedy, and faithful readers of the New York Times have come to rely on his periodic contributions to the editorial pages during the past 47 years. Here Sorensen has repeated, with emphasis,…

Newly elected presidents, their staffs flush with optimism and bursting with fresh ideas, sometimes invite a member of the opposing party, or at least an adherent of an opposing ideology, to join the administration. Maybe it’s a political gesture; maybe it's an expression of magnanimity or of…