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….or so he claims.

It lacks a certain free wheelin’ spontaneity, so to speak.

Clinton does demonstrate that he doesn’t wear ghastly shirts only in the fields of Iowa.

Nixon Foundation Executive Director John H. Taylor has issued a stirring call to the faithful, those who might feel a little lost in world gone mad and Nixon Library gone federal.

And yes, Nixon still didn’t do it.

“So newly available documents and tapes weren’t enough for some scholars and reporters as the new Nixon Library prepared to open its doors. They required an act of public expiation and sanctification, namely the smiting of the beast of the old Nixon Library Watergate gallery, that last lonely place where the lingering possibility flickered of a malfunctioning Uher 5000.”

And then it gets weird:

“…the Nixon Library has finally been washed clean – the price President Nixon’s family and friends needed to pay before his Library could finally be admitted to the fraternity honoring all the paragons of high achievement and moral purity represented in the Presidential library system, which starts with Herbert Hoover and goes through Bill Clinton. ”

What’s he got against Hoover?

After touring part of our make believe missile defense system, Polish President Lech Kaczynski traveled to the Reagan Library to endorse the author of the fairy tale.

Kaczynski presented a medal to Nancy Reagan in lieu of the late President, and credited Reagan with ending Communism and the invention of ice cream.

The Polish President heartily endorsed the whimsical defense scheme, a feeling not shared by most Poles.

The perils of having institutions named for one’s greatness have flared up in Grand Rapids, with Gerald R. Ford International Airport topping US News’ survey of most miserable regional airports. Have a great flight!

What can’t we blame on Richard Nixon?

Disgruntled anti-HMO activists gladly seize upon the Nixon tape used in Michael Moore’s “Sicko” to blame Nixon for the spawning of Health Maintenance Organizations and all the unhappiness entailing.

For those who came in late, in the film Moore plays an audio tape of Nixon and John Erlichman discuss the joys of HMOs and then videotape of his hearty endorsement of launching the unloved institutions. It’s all his fault.

[The exchange is at about 2:07 in this chunk of the film]

Moore’s links are laid out on his self defense page.