Archive for July, 2007
It’s Not The Coverup, It’s The Crime
Closed Published by Mr. President July 31st, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL SITES, JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTONLook Away!
Archaeologists have wrapped up digging at President’s House, the Philadelphia site where George Washington lived during the city’s period as the Capitol. They have covered the remnants of the slave passageway discovered while investigating the site as the city and the National Park Service ponder how to memorialize the location and it’s […]
Analogise This!
Closed Published by Mr. President July 31st, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, GEORGE W. BUSHThose who study history are doomed to recycle it?
Jeremi Suri is a history professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of “Henry Kissinger and the American Century.” He writes on The Huffington Post [doubling up on History News Network] that Nixon’s overture to China offers a model for how the US might cuddle […]
The Flame Yet Burns
Closed Published by Mr. President July 30th, 2007 in GERALD FORD, LYNDON JOHNSON, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, RONALD REAGAN, RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, BILL CLINTONNixon Foundation Executive Director John H. Taylor continues to lash out in exile, now that the Nixon Museum is in federal hands.
He’s emitted another cry for help, a “Letter From Yorba Linda” titled “Don’t Mention Bella,” which explains that “It supercedes “Letter from Yorba Linda #63, entitled “Lies.”
Taylor begins by painting a sad portrait of […]
Keep Smiling!
Closed Published by Mr. President July 30th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, POLITICAL HUMORA Quote of the Day web-page is digging deep to find inspiration in Nixon’s farewell address:
“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Let’s enjoy the moment again in blur-o-vision! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ff1jxlVPEQ]
Man & Machine
Closed Published by Mr. President July 30th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, RICHARD NIXON, GEORGE W. BUSHReagan has Air Force One, Nixon has Marine One. Is this and Segways the only transportation modes left for display at the Bush Library to be?