Standing between an entirely different version of US history, quite possibly only an alert security guard at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C.
Indeed, to visit the magnificent Nixon Library in Los Angeles is to be reminded of the man’s historic stature. Beside the display devoted to his 1976 [...]
Alternative timelines, what if Watergate never happened?
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 22 February, 2010 to the comment subset
Frost/Nixon
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 9 January, 2009 to the movies subset
The ability to infuse drama, tension, and suspense into a story whose outcome we already know is an truly an art form, and a challenge that Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard rises to masterfully.
Ten Reasons Why China Matters To You
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 11 April, 2008 to the comment subset
Ten Reasons Why China Matters To You, by US foreign affairs expert Thomas P. M. Barnett.
#10: “Because Nixon went to China and your world was born.”
When President Richard Nixon reopened diplomatic ties with Mao Zedong’s communist China in 1972, he enabled the most profound global economic dynamic of the last half century: China’s historic reemergence [...]
