Subject: Richard Nixon

• Barbecuing Dogs and Blowing Up Frogs

  It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one more thing in common: Fred Malek. Malek's current attempts to acquire D.C.'s baseball team, the Washington Nationals, caught the attention of Washington Post columnist Colbert King, who has been prov

  March 14, 2006

• Decoding the Times' cry for help

  As R. Scott Moxley observes at the end of his dissection of Dana Parsons' attempt to slap a coat of whitewash on the lazy and error-filled reporting of the Haidl rape case Parsons has filled his L.A. Times column with, the Times has a new slogan for its Orange County advertising: Now More Than Ever. As Scott notes, it's a recycled slogan– Now More Than Ever was the slogan for Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign. "The paper craves conservative readers," Scott explains. True, but I won

  March 20, 2006

• Yogi Unbearable

  The name Richard Nixon is not one you'd normally expect to find in a newspaper story about a yoga guru, but there it was in this morning's Los Angeles Times' story on yoga guru Bikram Choudhury and his problems with the city of L.A. Choudhury's been charged with 10 criminal safety violations at one of his yoga studios (Choudhury's the very litigious guy who introduced the concept of franchising to yoga, building a little empire of studios by injecting the marketing logic that made McDonald's gre

  June 30, 2006

• A Very Richard Nixon Xmas

  Mark Giselson, former City Pages blogger and all-around angry Norwegian, reminds us that 34 years ago today saw the beginning of the special contribution to Christmas history made by local boy turned felonious president, Richard M. Nixon (now Yorba Linda's leading roadside attraction). Up until 1972, Christmas and war had generally been linked by phrases like "Christmas Truce"-- it took Nixon to make "Christmas bombing" part of the Xmas vocabulary. Between December 18 and December 30, the U.S

  December 18, 2006

• Do you know Dick? Nixon that is.

  In honor of our 37th president's would-be birthday today we here at the Weekly have decided to create a quiz to test our readers' knowledge of their only locally born president, Richard Nixon. He's from Yorba Linda, donchaknow. 1. What is Dick's middle name? A. Homer B. Bart C. Smithers D. Milhous 2. What was Dick's nickname? A. Tricky Dick B. Lil' Wiener C. Dickface D. Rich Kane 3. What caused Dick to resign from the presidency? A. The theft of numerous large black dildos B. An array of

  January 9, 2008

• Not Trickie Dick's Western White House But an Amazing Facsimile

  Variety columnist Bashirah Muttalib has a fascinating piece about the Herculean task the Frost/Nixon location manager had in trying to film key Orange County locations depicted in the film, which is set in the late 1970s.The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda opened its doors for location man Greg Alpert and the rest of director Ron Howard's crew. Access to La Casa Pacifica, the Western White House during Nixon's presidency and his former home with wife Pat, was more problematic

  December 12, 2008

• Deep Throat Dies

  The famed and enigmatic anonymous source credited with grinding Richard Nixon's perfidious presidency to a halt, died yesterday in northern California. A career FBI director, W. Mark Felt Sr. confessed to being "Deep Throat" in 2005, after 30 years of denial. He was the man, he admitted, who walked Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein through Nixon's debauched attempts to cover up his dirty footprints in the early 1970's, which culminated in the Watergate scandal, Nixon's resignation in 1974, the lau

  December 19, 2008

• Meet The New Dick, Same As The Old Dick

  Because today would have been Richard Milhous Nixon's 94th birthday, I've decided to roll out something I was not prepared to roll out: TheNewDick.org. It's my new website/blog that strives to present all the ways the 37th president of the United States, despite being very dead, still manages to inspire, enliven and invade popular culture. TheNewDick.org is inspired, enlivened and invaded by TheNewNixon.org blog, brought to you by the Richard Nixon Foundation

  January 9, 2009

• Following the Dick Nixon Paper Trail

  Yesterday, the best investigative reporter in Orange County, R. Scott Moxley, shared something he saw on L.A. Observed that suggested Richard Nixon may have fibbed about his birthplace being the little white framed house that's now a Yorba Linda tourist attraction. That's because Dick's mom told the Los Angeles Times in 1959 that the then-vice president was born in a hospital. That got me thinking about something unusual about Nixon's birth I saw in Diggin' Up Gold on the Old Paper Trail;

  January 14, 2009

• The Nixon Makeover Worked!

  Visions of champagne flowing at the Richard Nixon Library and New Image Birthplace in Yorba Linda fill my brain with news of a Gallup poll that finds Americans believe history will judge George W. Bush more harshly than Orange County's Favorite Disgraced Son.WOO-HOO! The long, arduous post-resignation Nixon makeover finally bore fruit! Gallup: Although Bush is about tied with Nixon in perceptions that history will remember him as an outstanding or above-a

  January 16, 2009

• You'd Better Have a Really Good Mortgage Broker

  A new estate has popped up on the grounds of Richard Nixon's former Western White House in San Clemente, and it's for sale. The property that after the Stubbly One's 1969 arrival hosted dignitaries, treaty signings and the Frost-Nixon interviews was subdivided into 16 lots in 1980. The new Spanish Colonial Revival-style estate is two doors down from the Nixon's former home. Asking price: $15 mil. But that's a steal because David Silver-Westrick, representing the sellers for Keller William

  January 21, 2009

• Setting the Record Straight at the Nixon Library

  Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was not clear in an earlier post that called the foundation the "funding arm" of the Nixon Library. That mistake brought my boss a polite-but-swift letter from Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

  February 10, 2009

• Historians: Lots of Presidents Worse Than OC's Favorite Disgraced Son

  It was mused here previously that, based on their respective (low) popularity ratings, George W. Bush was more despised upon leaving the presidency than Orange County's favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon, which prompted our tip of the press hat to the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda for their masterful, decades-in-the-making-Nixon makeover. Well, it seems those low ratings must have also influenced the nation's historians, w

  February 17, 2009

• Nixon and Disneyland: 2 OC Institutions Together at Last, er, Again

  Artist, marketing man and blogger extraordinaire Dave Decaro posts on the Disneyland Art Blog, the Jungle Cruise Blog, the Haunted Mansion Blog, the Pirates of the Caribbean Blog and 2719 Hyperion (for the Hollywood address of Walt Disney Studios). "Yes, I spend way too much time at Disneyland," Decaro notes his mini-profile. Currently, his Daveland Blog features posts based on Richard Nixon's many brushes with the Anaheim theme park, which the Stubbly One and his family visited frequently in th

  February 24, 2009

• Nixon, Watchmen, Queerty, Archie Bunker and Tobias Funke

  Frost/Nixon may have gotten skunked at the Oscars, but it did win "Best Picture for Grown-ups" in AARP the Magazine's awards for movies those over 50 enjoy. Otherwise, the media's fixation with Opie's flick is waning, but not with Richard Nixon himself, who is rolled into the plot line of a movie that will likely be seen by many more people (especially if they are under 50), Watchmen. It's 1985 and Watergate never happened. Richard Nixon is still U.S. president, having

  March 4, 2009

• Nip Tuck

  Dick Tuck is not a new procedure offered by your plastic surgeon but a "legendary political hoaxster" and former frequent tormentor of Orange County Disgraced Favorite Son Richard Nixon, whose visit from Arizona to a friend's home in Colorado drew the ink-stained wretches of the Aspen Daily--and later the snubbery of the all-around wretches at TheNewNixon.org, the ever-fascinating blog of the Yorba Linda-based, Nixon-boostering Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation.The

  March 27, 2009

• Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager Rate Obama at Nixon Library

  Awe-inspiring? Vomit-inducing? Noise-abatement requiring? You be the judge as the 12-city national tour of News Talk 870-KRLA's syndicated radio triple threat--Irvine attorney-Chapman U law prof-MSM hater Hugh Hewitt, Zionist-unilateralist-culture war-declarer Dennis Prager and some guy named Michael Gallagher--stops at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda May 4 to pontificate on "Obama, the First 100 Days."Since the National Archives is not over my shoulder as I write this, let m

  March 27, 2009

• Couple Sees Nixon Everywhere They Go in OC

  Yank Lisa and Brit Andy, who consider themselves the unlikliest people in Northern California to have became ranchers and farmers, headed south for the late winter--and seemingly encountered Dick everywhere they went. In "The Good, the Bad and Richard Nixon" on their Left Coast Cowboys site, they describe entering the Getty Museum in LA  and thinking they ran smack into a Nixon bust. Actually, it was a likeness of museum benefactor J. Paul Getty. "But I'm telling you, Nixon is everywhere

  March 31, 2009

• See Dick Wakesurf

  Being cold below ground in Yorba Linda does not stop our favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon from finding himself in the news. The hits just keep coming, don't they? But far more fascinating than Dick being blamed for the Cambodian genocide, joined in the hereafter by Watergate-era foe Jerome Waldie and better liked by Democrats than Barack Obama is by Republicans at this point in their respective presidencies is the footage above from Slaysh!blog ("a pla

  April 7, 2009

• Frank Langella and Michael Sheen Capture a Summit of Egos as 'Frost/Nixon' Goes From Stage to Screen

  December 4, 2008

• Girl Scout Wookiee Time!

  March 13, 2008

• Its All Right That Popes Were Laying the Nuns

  April 4, 2002

• Teaching an Old Dick New Tricks

  Thank God weve still got Dick Nixon to kick around

  May 3, 2007

• Nixon, John Taylor and the Bohemian Grove

  Early 1990s Cave Man campers. Taylor is in red polo at far right, Nixon sits at left and Meese is behind him.In his August 2006 story "Bohemian Grove Exposes Itself!" the Weekly's Nick Schou interviewed an unnamed Orange County resident and former employee of the private, all-male, 2,700-acre forest retreat in Sonoma County that was founded in 1872 and served as stomping grounds for California's richest men. This was a coup because the Bohemian Grove's primary directive was that members and empl

  April 17, 2009

• Diary of a Mad County

  Jan. 3-Jan. 9

  January 11, 2007

• The President Meets the King

  January 11, 2007

• Fun With Dick

  October 19, 2006

• Ending War 101

  September 7, 2006

• Commie Girl

  Make Levees Not War
  We go a-visiting at the Nixon Library

  February 23, 2006

• The Good Thief

  June 9, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 24, 2005

• Tricky Dicks

  March 17, 2005

• Sock It . . . To Me!?!

  January 6, 2005

• Were No. 2!

  June 24, 2004

• Earth Daddy

  April 22, 2004

• Daddy, Are You Listening to Nixon?

  December 25, 2003

• Dont Fire Until You See the Whites In Their I30s

  January 23, 2003

• For the Love of Dick

  June 27, 2002

• Reading & Righting

  April 25, 2002

• Nixon Bug

  March 14, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 14, 2002

• Revolting!

  February 7, 2002

• Are These Things Just to Be Pissed Upon?

  December 27, 2001

• Their Masters Image

  September 27, 2001

• Nixon Library Museum Store is Green With Ennui

  The private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation (not to be confused with the public Richard Nixon Library and Museum) has really gotten into the spirit of Earth Day. The foundation is directing shoppers to its cash cow, the museum store, with an email blast that states:Celebrate Earth Day Keep It GreenDid you know? Richard Nixon was the first "environmental President."In 1970 he established the Environmental Protection Agency.Thank you Mr. PresidentIf you hear "You're welcome" from

  April 17, 2009

• Richard Nixon in the Rotten.com Library

  I'm sure Clockwork Coker will wax wonderfully about the latest secret recordings of former President Richard Nixon, but I also want to use the occasion of this round of the gift that keeps on giving to draw attention to Nixon's entry in the Rotten.com Library. Don't worry: you can click on the entry and not find decapitated heads, legs swarming with maggots, and the like--that's plain ol' Rotten.com, and they don't update as much as they used to. Anyway, the beginning of their entry, and it only

  June 24, 2009

• Man on the Moon

  August 13, 2009

• Dishney: 1959 Monorail Dedication With Uncle Dick and Uncle Walt

  The more you know: Richard Nixon, being the only Orange Countian ever elected to the office of President of the United States, is--expectantly--also the President with the closest ties to Disneyland. Nixon first visited the park in August 1955, not long after the grand opening of Disneyland, and was presented with a key to the park at City Hall on Main Street. A few more documented appearances after that happened, the highlight of which was captured on the above super fun YouTube clip (brought

  August 19, 2009

• Gore Vidal, George McGovern and Spirit of Ted Kennedy Take Over the Nixon Library

  September 3, 2009

• Is Obama Our Nixon and Fox News Our New York Times?

  ​Is Barack Obama this generation's disgraced Orange County favorite son Richard Nixon?And does that make Fox News the Dick-era equivalent of the Pentagon Papers-publishing New York Times?Well, Bebe Rebozo, see if you can follow the bouncing twisted-logic ball . . .

  October 14, 2009