Arnold Steinberg At The Nixon Library

Above, Arnold Steinberg.

One advantage (or disadvantage, depending upon how one looks at it) to being around politics for over 40 years is that one meets many personalities in different political campaigns besides being a part of and witnessing history.

Back in 1976, I was working for the Reagan campaign during the primaries (and was a California Reagan delegate) and then helped in the Robert K. Dornan campaign against Gary Familian.

The campaign director for the Dornan campaign was Arnold ("Arnie" as we called him) Steinberg.

Above, Youth for Dornan members meets with the candidate in 1976. I am at the far left.

Tomorrow, Steinberg will be speaking on his new book, "Whiplash: JFK To Donald Trump, A Political Odyssey" at the Richard Nixon Library & Museum.

Here's what the Nixon Foundation says about Steinberg's lecture:

In this engaging and provocative political memoir, Arnold Steinberg provides an insider’s look into the often widely misunderstood history and nature of political conservatism in American politics, ever since its initial stirrings in the 1950s down to why today’s Generation X has begun to turn against big government and political correctness. His Nixon Library presentation will feature commentary about President Nixon’s political career including the opening to China, aide to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the end of the military draft, and Civil Rights programs. 

Steinberg, a strategist and analyst, wrote two classic graduate textbooks on politics and media. He is a veteran of hundreds of national, state, and local political campaigns, including U.S. Senator James L. Buckley of New York. Over several decades, he has been widely published in magazines, newspapers and online. Sternberg has been interviewed for many publications and has been a frequent guest on television and radio programs. He started in broadcasting as a student panelist for Fred Friendly’s Public Broadcasting Laboratory, the precursor for national public television.

If it weren't for the distance and the headcold I am finally getting over, I would go to this event.

For more information, go here.