Archive for August, 2007

The Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library got a bump in attendance in the wake of Lady Bird Johnson’s death, and they have hopes of keeping the magic alive with a new exhibit featuring the man himself.
Tourists with a hankering to discuss the saga of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill and other career highlights will enjoy the […]

“There is something very strange about the people who have assembled themselves around the President over the past few years.” *

As Karl Rove steps into what shadows the Texas sun will provide, History News Network is trying to answer the WTF factor of the Bush Presidency.They are polling: Did Karl Do It?, but […]

Reeks And Wreckage

The selling of former Reagan CIA Director William Casey’s Florida home is being sold as the passing of an era, with quotes in the Palm Beach Daily News that “The place reeks of history.”
The sale does recall a colorful, bygone era, when a youthful Osama Ben Laden could be recruited to […]

Oh, how we laughed, but then someone checked and spoiled the fun.
The popular quote:
“A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’re-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job.”

I haven’t seen it in any of the obits I’ve read so far, but the late Reagan presidential Svengali Michael Deaver was the source of the single greatest quote ever uttered on the media and US Presidents.
Mark Hertsgaard’s “On Bended Knee: the Press & the Reagan Presidency quotes Deaver as saying:
“You let me supply the […]