James Warren

It was 10:31 p.m. and President Clinton's State of the Union address, now 75 minutes old and in need of an oratorical version of euthanasia, had made its way to...

While the media feasted over Old Nixon last week, I was immersed in New Nixon and the curious ways of Henry Kissinger. Release of the historic Watergate tapes, as head-turning...

Even in preparing for his daughter's wedding, President Richard Nixon was weird. The wedding of Patricia Nixon, 25 and his elder daughter, was to Edward Finch Cox, 24, a student...

In this holiday season, it is clear that Richard Nixon's gift is the tapes that keep on giving. "So what's the deal with you and Nixon?" a few folks have...

Even amid Vietnam War demonstrations, a stagnant economy and release of the Pentagon Papers, President Richard Nixon seemed nearly obsessed with one other topic: the Kennedys. As I listen at...

The courtly gentleman at the National Archives looked up and smiled. "Long time, no see," he said. It sounded disconcertingly like the comment of a manager at a Chicago liquor...

To Bill Clinton's other transgressions, add this: He prevented me from seeing the house of the Virgin Mary. Religious or not, when in Ephesus, do as the whatever-they-call-themselves do, along...

Long before the recent release of 445 hours of President Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes, there was intense dueling between the National Archives and the Nixon family and library. The...

Henry Kissinger is just pleased as punch. "I really think I shook Brinkley," he tells his boss, President Richard Nixon, on April 9, 1971, after an apparent one-on-one session in...

The tuna fish at the National Archives cafeteria in nearby College Park, Md., isn't bad. But nothing was quite as scrumptious last week as the coincidence I confronted as I...