Archive for October, 2007

The National Archives Doc ‘O The Day for Saturday

Surfacing this picture gives the Archives reason enough to link to a 1998 article in their publication “Prologue,” “I Am Entitled to the Medal of Honor and I Want It” Theodore Roosevelt and His Quest for Glory
The story is a trawl […]

Standard deviation
The Weekly Standard offers a wet kiss to Republican operative and son-Nixon-never-had Roger Stone. Nothing on Nixon but the bitchin’ tat on the cover, lots of Stone’s mischievous rise to greatness.

Every jot and tickle of drama surrounding access to Hillary Clinton’s papers gets extensive play in right wing blogs, generally along the lines of “I wonder what she’s hiding” or “Hmmm.”
We can now watch with interest the reaction to the Chicago Tribune’s blow by blow of the ever changing status of Rudy Giuliani’s papers.
After […]

Before the Banner, there was the flight suit
 
- Mission Accomplished Explained?

The L.B.Jesus that’s ugly!
David H. Bennett argues in the Austin American-Statesman

 

for LBJ memorializement beyond the Education Department building.
“Washington is a city of monuments: The Mall features buildings, statues and walls commemorating big achievements (like saving the Union) and small ones (like inventing the screw propeller). But until now, […]