We’ll Believe It When We See The Fred Malek Jew Counting* Exhibit

naftali-tieless.jpg Nifty Naftali

The impossible takes a little longer at the Nixon Library.

New Director Timothy Naftali is still winded and a little dusty from single handedly removing the old, bad, inaccurate Watergate exhibit nixon-watergate-exhibit.jpgat the Nixon Library, Museum, Birthplace and Grave.

But he found the strength to congratulate himself for booking Watergate Hero-Reporter Carl Bernstein, book touring with his Hillary Clinton biography:

I was told when I got here it couldn’t be done

The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register followed Bernstein around the grounds nixon-bernstein-library.jpgto the Nixon birthplace home nixon-grave-birthplace.gif, but if he paused at the the nearby grave it went unreported.

*Let’s review…

redstate

 

 

Libraries are not monuments to the glory of the Presidents for which they are named.”

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Whatever they are smoking at Redstate blog it’s clouding their vision.

Leaving aside the endless galleries of glory, if the Presidential Libraries are not monuments, whatever are these doing there?

 

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Mittnik Mania

They are getting a little ahead of themselves on the Mitt Romney blog.

Volunteers apparently high on their own fumes have moved beyond the primaries, the general election, and are already far gone into legacy/house museum building.

After stalking Kennedy properties in Hyannis Port romney-blog-kennedy-stalking.jpg one Vic Lundquist speaks for the nation:

“I recommend that Governor Romney purchase the estate (one home owned by Bobby Kennedy’s son is for sale right now) and keep it in the “presidential family” for American history.”

romeny-family.jpg Landlocked – for now.

No Deal in Dallas

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The long awaited announcement of a deal to bring the George W. Bush Presidential Library to Southern Methodist University remains…awaited.

The Dallas Morning News rounds up the current state of play – Bush still loves SMU the best, some faculty and Methodist Church grumbling, and a prolonged lawsuit by former condo owners over the land SMU is expected to build the Library on.

The Motorcycle Diaries

bush-motercycle.jpg Easy, rider

A souvenir of George W. Bush’s “Que es muy macho?” 2004 reelection campaign has surfaced at the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame in South Dakota.

The bike was built for Bush and ridden only once, by him, indoors. This storied history will now be commemorated at the Museum, and someday, the bike’s builders hope, in the Bush Library. It’s quite the swanky ride, with the Constitution’s Preamble on the gas tank where they usually put the wizard. bush-motercycle-gas-tank.jpg

Bush’s bike will be in interesting company. The Sturgis Museum features a “Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame,” the proud rolls leading off with Ralph “Sonny” Barger of Arizona. That would be the beloved Hells Angels leader, no longer serving time for conspiring to blow up a rival motorcycle gang’s headquarters. Sturgis is the site of a legendary annual motorcycle rally, not known to be “family friendly.”sturgis-women.jpg

The Bush White House dragged his biker “image” out of the closet again in 2006, sending Bush to the Pennsylvania Harley-Davidson plant. bush-motercycle-harley-plant.jpg It didn’t work in Pennsylvania at least. The Democrats picked up the Senate and four House seats.