Helen Mirren does it again. The British Meryl Streep has confirmed the stunning breadth of her dramatic range. Among dozens of memorable roles, the 78-year-old actress has portrayed Queen Elizabeth II, Maria Altmann — the owner of painter Gustav Klimt’s…
The movement toward prosecuting people (i.e., politicians) and not crimes did not start with the current onslaught against former President Donald Trump. In the modern era, it stretches back to Robert Kennedy’s all-out effort to destroy Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa….
As some of you know, I had a famous father, the economist, wit, and writer, Herbert Stein. I write about him a great deal, especially in these inflationary times, I write about his epigram: “If something cannot go on forever,…
I first met Aram Bakshian in the fall of 1961. We were both Washingtonians. He was a senior at Woodward Prep, a Washington day school about one block west of the White House. I was a senior at a simply…
Geoff Shepard, former deputy White House counsel for Nixon, has written three fabulous books that should forever change Americans’ views about Watergate — The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President (2008), The Real Watergate Scandal (2015), and The Nixon…
This is another in a series of articles about Watergate people and events, as the 50th anniversary of that scandal continues to unfold. In mulling over the Watergate scandal for the past 50 years, thinking about how it ruined so…
Mark Twain once observed, “History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.” As midterm elections approach, Democrats face challenges eerily similar to those following President Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection. Their response was a select committee to stage a legislative show…
So, Michael Sussmann has been acquitted by a Washington, D.C., jury. This should come as no great surprise to anyone familiar with the district’s overtly Democrat political composition. He certainly was tried before a jury of his political peers. After…
This is another in a series of articles about Watergate people and events, as the 50th anniversary of that scandal continues to unfold. This June 17 will mark 50 years since five burglars were caught red-handed in the Watergate offices of…
Cracks are starting to widen in the conventional “history” of Watergate — the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein/Hollywood version (familiar from the 1976 film All the President’s Men) that unfortunately has been accepted as gospel by most of America. The mainstream narrative…