Tim Naftali
Nixon's Improbable Minder
So we’re sipping glasses of red wine (Margerum “M5” Rhone Blend) late on a recent school night at West Hollywood’s Basix, one of those bistro-ish cafes that exude an understated and casual hipness, the type of place where it’s hard to tell if you’re sharing your heat lamp with a table of successful screenwriters or struggling realtors – or struggling screenwriters turned successful realtors.
My conversation with Timothy Naftali turns to a presidential word-association game: JFK? Ironic pragmatist. LBJ? Overbearing New Dealer. Richard Nixon? Naftali grins broadly, as if to say “nice try.”
“That …
