Don’t let the Regan Legacy-ists hear, but there may be no Presidential dollar coin for Reagan.
According to the Fayette Observer, it’s all about Jimmy Carter’s refusal to leave the scene.
Coining Reagan may be twarted by the interaction of two laws.
The Observer reports that under current statutes, “a president must be dead at least two years before he can be featured on a U.S. bill or coin. The current dollar-coin program requires that the presidents be featured in the order they served. Skipping isn’t allowed. So if Jimmy Carter lives to at least 2014 — he’d be 89 — he won’t make it to a coin in this program since his would be due out in 2016.”
A fresh face has joined the cavalcade of scowling actors playing Richard Nixon.
British actor Jim Broadbent will do the honers this time, with pretty boy Brad Pitt as John Dean.
But can America absorb two Nixon bi-ops? The film of the play of the book of the TV interviews “Frost/Nixon” is also going into production, with the play’s star Frank Lanella beating out former matanay idol Warren Beaty to keep the role.
The Lincoln Library wants the city of Springfield to front for them in issuing $25 million in bonds to pay for a substantial collection of Lincoln odds and ends, the star of which is one of three stovepipe hats known to exist. But museums don’t usually go into debt to build their collections. And while issuing tax exempt bods makes the funds cheaper for the museum, someone [ie the feds] gets the tax loss.
The Lincoln’s Executive Director assures the “Springfield Journal Register” that it’s all magic money. “This collection is, essentially, a gift to the people of the state of Illinois. The foundation is paying for it.†But the paper says the foundation has some $19 million in the bank, and fund-raising is nowhere near where they projected it.
Cheney explains the whole legacy thing to Larry King:
“I saw Jerry Ford, when I served with him, when I first met you, Jerry was — President Ford was down — it was 70 percent when he started. He ended up in the 30s. Later, 30 years later, obviously, just last year, when he passed away and we had memorial services and so forth for him, he was held in very high regard; across the country his praises were sung for some of the really tough decisions he made that were very unpopular at the time.”