Presidential Greatness: People’s Choice Edition

Say what you will, Bush at his weakest hasn’t bottomed out quite so low as a sweaty war criminal tax cheat and the cardigan crazed man who lowered our thermometers.
Nixon and Carter still beat out Bush in Presidential Unlovedness.
Retire to the “ranch,” crank out the books and the path […]

Lincoln Logs Off

The Lincoln Library was billed as Disney on the prairie when it opened, and like the Magic Kingdom they’ve discovered the joys of copyright.
A video produced for the museum illustrating the course of the Civil War was briefly popular on YouTube, and you’d think they would be grateful for the attention. Instead they […]

Jerry’s Kids

We are often told that like Presidents “growing in office,” presidential museums somehow worm their way from the grasp of the Ex and his followers and become almost real museums, splorin’ controversies ‘n such. Twenty five years on the Ford museum appears to be still at least holding hands with the past.
With […]

Written On The Wind
Twists remain in some quarters’ pants after Jimmy Carter’s botched critique of President Bush and his image abroad. The former President ducked when confronted with blowback, but not before the great and the good, and others, were mobilized to comment on his comment.
“Presidential Historian” Doug Brinkley was called on […]

Prairie Dog
The Lincoln Library has clearly run out of ideas on spending it’s spare cash. It’s latest acquisition is a likeness of Old Abe by renowned cheeseball artist and mustache enthusiast Leroy Neiman, purchased for $100,000.

Neiman is not too proud to spare himself the same smeary treatment.
Visitors to the great man’s web […]