Richard Nixon

The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Celebrates a Famous First Amendment Victory But Ignores the Bigger Issue

6 Movies to See This Week, Including Wet Hot American Summer in a Cemetery

Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 16 6. Last January at Sundance, a movie starring Frank Langella (who played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon and, more importantly, the scheming owner of the Knicks in Eddie) as a man who becomes friends with a robot made qui ... More >>

Secret Service Attracted Prostitutes Way Back in Nixon's SoCal Days

The U.S. Secret Service got serviced by prostitutes ahead of President Obama's visit to Columbia last month, it is alleged. And much has been said about how this happened on Obama's watch. It's positively Clintonian, if you ask some in the Republican party. What's with these horny Democratic admini ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings

This really happened. See #1 for details.​When it comes to presidential endorsements, musicians tend to be pretty predictable. Most all of them seem to go for Democrats, except for Ted Nugent. And then, inevitably, the Republican candidates go ahead and use the left-leaning rockers' music anyw ... More >>

Nixon Was Gay?!

Richard Nixon might have been the LAest of American presidents, with a political career launched by late Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler, a Western White House in San Clemente, and a presidential library in Yorba Linda. So this news comes with particular interest to us tabloid hounds in ... More >>

J. Edgar Review

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century

Richard Nixon's War on Drugs: Happy Anniversary! Candlelight Vigil Marks the Occasion

Richard Nixon checks out a package of marijuana​As part of Richard Nixon's farewell to the press and the nation, he famously said, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." But tody, June 17 - the 40th anniversary of Nixon officially declaring a "war on drugs" - is a special exception. Fo ... More >>

President's Day: Who is Modern History's 'Most L.A.' U.S. President?

The Oval Office.​Ah, President's Day. A time to celebrate our favorite dead guys (at least the ones we can remember), bask in the glow of our empty mailboxes, and congratulate our overpaid, federal-job-having relatives for finagling yet another day without work at our expense. But what it's ... More >>

Wake Up Each Morning To Drug War History With The Drug Policy Alliance 2011 Calendar

Drug Policy AlliancePresident Richard Nixon was the original war-on-drugs crusader.​Every day we wake up we think, ah, what a glorious morning -- wonder what's happening in the world of drug-war history. California is, after all, the wake-and-bake state. Good thing the Drug Policy Alliance is ... More >>

ALL HAIL THE STONE KING

Today in Photographs: October 4, 1974

​Richard Nixon, who'd resigned the presidency two months earlier, is released from Long Beach Memorial Hospital after being treated for phlebitis.LA Times/UCLA

Jon Stewart, Jim Cramer and Frost/Nixon at the Ahmanson

See Dick run

Stage Raw: Frost/Nixon

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FROST/NIXON Alan Cox and Stacy Keach in Frost/Nixon Photo by Carol RoseggAfter Stacy Keach as Nixon in Frost/Nixon, which opened last night at the Ahmanson, finished a late night pho ... More >>

Resignation Day

For Your Reconsideration: Frost/Nixon’s Michael Sheen

Welsh actor’s turns as real-life British legends run the gamut

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

Statutory Tape: Nixon Library Unspools More Recordings

Marx had Bismark in mind when described the "shallowness characteristic of all successful statesmen," but he may as well have been looking ahead to Richard Nixon. Today the Nixon Library has released a new batch of White House tapes and for my money the thrill is not in listening to the obvious mome ... More >>

Monster Massive, Club Suicide, Gitane Demone and Dame Darcy

Election '08: Remembering Kissinger and the Original September 11th

BY MARC COOPER I'll leave the exploitation of 9/11 to the professional pols. The date -- and its surrounding commemoration -- has become about as meaningless as Thanksgiving, except you don't get a day off from school or work. We all know we are not an iota safer than we were seven years ago. Quit ... More >>

the Fine Art of drawing Pricks

(or, Mr. Fish visits Paul Conrad and sort of interviews him)

American Dreamer

Idealism under siege in The U.S. vs. John Lennon

After the Fall

Oliver Stone at ground zero

Save the Gefilte Fish

Darryl Henriques

Impeaching Presidents — and Messengers

Bush, The New York Times and the Patriot Act

Deep Throat’s Crimes

Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder

The Other Texan

Dan Rather’s Evening News exit

Leaves

Leave No Particulate Matter Behind

Frankophilia

The Taming of the Burn

Surf Report: Billabong Threatens an International Incident

The Back Story

In the Blue August Moon

Less Than Zero

The new age of intolerance

All You Need Is Weed

Tales of serendipity and Lennon

Death of a Nation

Donald Freed’s newest play, American Iliad

Countermythologist

Donald Freed on the greatest stories never told

Letters

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens’ indictment of the former secretary of state

Whose Vietnam?

A.J. Langguth’s new history

Early and Often

Twenty-eight years ago, Arizona easily solved the Palm Beach County problem

Early and Often

Twenty-eight years ago, Arizona easily solved the Palm Beach County problem

Softly Through Stone

Washed Up

Fantasia

Gary Boas and his celebrity connections

Where the Man Began

The Nixon birthplace at resignation-plus-25

25 Years of Dick

Plebicide

Never mind the Republican attack on Clinton. What about the Republican attack on us?

Day of a Locust

Dick Nixon takes on the Pink Lady

October Demise