"Reportedly Nixon … regards the détente with Peking as the principal jewel in the notoriously underdecorated diadem of his administration, but the...
Nixon’s China Policy Skepticism
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UN and Lost Hopes
"Most of the hopes vested in the UN were absurd from the start; virtually all of the rest have been destroyed, one by one, as it has increasingly...
Reforming Without Experience
"How can you have a reasonable agenda for redesigning the Environmental Protection Agency, when no conservative has ever served there? Reagan has...
Government Response to Downturns
"... The auto industry is a critical part of the nation's economy. But ... by no means the only critical part. If we undertake to guarantee its...
Bailouts and Economic Pragmatism
"... the recent worldwide economic downturn will, predictably, generate a demand that Washington “do something,” and Washington will respond with a...
Rendition Issue is Resolved, For Now
There has been a good deal of controversy over renditions -- moving captured terrorists to countries where they might be tortured. Human-rights...
Those First Hundred Days
When one president succeeds another (whether they come from the same party or different parties), they traditionally get together, in or about...
Those Senate Vacancies
Just recently, there were no fewer than three vacancies in the U.S. Senate -- New York, Illinois and Minnesota -- which is a lot. Sen. Barack Obama...
Caroline Kennedy for senator?
President-elect Obama's designation of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as his intended secretary of state creates a vacancy in her Senate seat, which...
Obama Stiffs the Left
The American left had every reason to think that, in Barack Obama, it had finally succeeded in putting one of its devout disciples in the Oval...
The Limits of Presidential Power
Whenever a new president is inaugurated, there is always a tremendous amount of speculation over what he (or she) is going to "do." And there's no...
Bush’s Last Few Months
President Bush now has fewer than six months to serve, and the question arises as to what he ought to do with this remaining time. There are...