The New York Times: On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence. Nixon worried that ...Read More
President Obama left Washington on Thursday morning, embarking on a nine-day tour of Asian countries, including two greatly anticipated stops in China.
When President Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed ...Read More
The third-ranking Senate Republican said Wednesday the Obama administration appears to be launching a Richard Nixon-like political strategy of making an "enemies list" of people who disagree with the president. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who once worked in President Nixon's ...Read More
WASHINGTON -The third-ranking Senate Republican said Wednesday the Obama administration appears to be launching a Richard Nixon-like political strategy of making an "enemies list" of people who disagree with the president. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who once worked in President ...Read More
HARTFORD, Conn.—Paul Newman's daughter says her father liked to joke about his trademark blue eyes, musing that if they turned brown his career might be in jeopardy. Nell Newman's father died a year ago at age 83. She says he considered ...Read More
(CNN) -- William Safire, a onetime speechwriter for President Nixon who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has died at age 79, the newspaper announced Sunday. Safire joined the Times as a columnist in 1973. In addition ...Read More
William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop's treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, ...Read More
The newspaper reported that Safire, who also was a speechwriter for President Nixon, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md., on Sunday. Safire died of cancer, his assistant, Rosemary Shields, told The Times. From 1973 to 2005, Safire's "Essay," published twice a ...Read More
WASHINGTON — After a summer of health care battles and sliding approval ratings for President Barack Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest ...Read More
Note language in paras 4 and 8 WASHINGTON - Former U.S. president Richard Nixon once had the late Ted Kennedy in his crosshairs, putting the senator under surveillance due to fears he was a serious political threat in the early 1970s. Nixon, ...Read More
When Richard Nixon first visited China back in 1972, his journey seemed far longer than the seven thousand miles that actually separate Washington from Beijing. He was bridging the gap between two worlds separated for a generation. President Nixon understood that ...Read More
As part of the big push to promote his greatest-hits album HIStory: Past, Present and Future: Book I, Michael Jackson kicked off the 1995 Video Music Awards with an epic 15-minute medley of some of his biggest hits, including "Beat ...Read More
E3 2009: Sony VP of marketing Peter Dille confirms redesigned handheld will ship in two colors on October 1; additional hues possible post-release. LOS ANGELES--Sony Computer Entertainment had a hard time keeping the PSP Go under wraps leading up the handheld's ...Read More
New Yorkers anxious for answers in the tragic friendly fire death of an off-duty cop agreed Friday that fixing blame won't be as simple as black and white. "We're hoping that nobody jumps to conclusions on this," said Bishop S.N. Snipes, ...Read More
First she was branded a liberal judicial activist by some on the right. Now liberal groups are voicing concern about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's stance on abortion. Though there is little legal history to show how Sotomayor would rule in ...Read More
CANNES, France — It was a matter of life and death at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Several stories marked by shock violence and gruesome murder dominated critics' attention, but a powerful undercurrent to the world's largest movie gathering was ...Read More
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - There are well over thirty named characters in "The White Ribbon" (Das Weisse Band), Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's newly anointed Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival. Shot in a luscious black and white (replete with ...Read More
When President Barack Obama talks about finding common ground on abortion, as he did during his commencement address at Notre Dame over the weekend, he's not really talking about abortion at all. The president is pro-choice, which means that he ...Read More
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — At least five people have been led away in handcuffs during anti-abortion demonstrations before President Barack Obama's commencement address at the University of Notre Dame. At noon Sunday, more than 200 abortion opponents stood at the school's ...Read More
The three last contestants standing on "American Idol" made hometown visits last week. Highlights will air at 8 p.m. today: SAN DIEGO - Adam Lambert's old high school greeted the "Idol" front-runner with cheerleaders, a marching band and thousands of fans ...Read More
On April 6, 1977, David Frost was having a particularly difficult time interviewing former President Richard Nixon. Frost's colleague James Reston, Jr. suggested a new line of questioning, one used earlier in the trial of former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman: ...Read More
