Tag: Richard Nixon

• If the President Tweets It

  When the National Review is calling Trump out, it’s worth reading: [Trump’s] tweets, however, are exposing something else in many of Trump’s friends and supporters — an extremely high tolerance for dishonesty and an oft-enthusiastic willingness to defend sheer nonsense. Yes, I know full well that many of his supporters take him “seriously, not literally,” but…

  Mar 24, 2017

  # Donald Trump, National Review, politics, presidents, Republicans, Richard Nixon, social media, Twitter

• Herbert Hoover in the White House

  By nature of their office presidents generally believe the press corps is working against them, but there is little question that in Washington in 1932 reporters and editors had a lively antipathy for Hoover, a disdain unmatched by any successor until the next Quaker to occupy the White House—Richard Nixon, some forty years later. From…

  Jan 12, 2016

  # books, Charles Rappleye, Herbert Hoover, history, presidents, Richard Nixon