Nixon's tactic denied Ervin his moment in the sun. He wrote Nixon protesting, but the White House ignored him. Fast forward half a year later. Due to Watergate revelations by Ervin's special investigating committee, Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman are out.

Romney is perceived as having stumbled badly the past few weeks, appearing awkward, shockingly ill-prepared for questions he knew would be coming about his tax returns, generating a seeming major flub a week that will greatly help President Barack...

Among the Nixon appointees and holdovers (of whom this writer was a very minor one) were Mr. Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, each of whom taught Mr. Nessen valuable lessons in management. Haig “gave me an insight that...

From the Thatcherite point of view this is raise a cheer stuff, but it’s not great history. Agree with them or not, Heath, Haig, and the rest were not negligible figures. Nor is it necessarily a contribution to building up Lady Thatcher’s legacy:...

Yet, the two allies risk being hoisted on their own ambiguity petard. During the Cold War, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, well known for his obscure language, once said, "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity...

Result: More thousands of Cuban troops spreading Soviet terror (and poisonous gas) in Africa, more internal repression, and hundreds of psychopaths, killers and perverts infiltrated onto the boats on the Mariel boatlift. In 1982, President Ronald...