Remembering history the way they wished it had been
He’d have appreciated the flag on the dumpster
New Jersey’s The Record provides blow by blow Nixon demolition pictures, as the Sage of Saddle River’s “rustic prize” of a wreck of a house went down. 
Richard Nixon’s home for the 1980s was knocked down Wednesday.
Not usually seen as a naif 
Whatever is Vaclav Havel thinking?
The fair haired boy of the Velvet Revolution is launching the Havel Library, and talking about it as though no one east of Little Rock had thought of the idea before. 
A by no means exhaustive list of Presidential Libraries built in imitation of the US would include Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo, The Philippines’ Joseph Estrada, Mexico’s Vicente Fox, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, and Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Dae-jung in Korea. We haven’t heard much on it lately, but Saddam’s relatives said they’ll build a presidential library around his grave.
Havel plans the now standard lists of his papers elsewhere, archives of what documents he still controls, and “Multimedia,” what many call photographs. The web site already contains a classic Havel channeling Nixon moment, jacket and shoes in the surf. 
At least it has pillars.
The prolonged negotiations with Southern Methodist University have had no public result, and a man needs a place for his junk.
The National Archives has rented this handsome warehouse outside Dallas for the interim Bush papers dumping ground, a holding action until the finished library opens, somewhere.
The warehouse lacks even the limited romance lent by Bush Senior and Bill Clinton’s initial locations, a bowling alley and a former car dealership.
Nearby neighbors include a 
Spirit Halloween Superstore, whose national sales for John Kerry 
masks outsell their Bush Mask.
That may not be a negative for Bush. The surprisingly life-like Cheney outsells him too. 
The long heralded demolition of Richard Nixon’s Saddle River New Jersey home has finally commenced. Nixon lived in the home from 1981 to 91 following his resignation.
The Rot Within 
Michigan is going ahead with pulling the plug, removing their Capitol Hill statue of a consequential historic figure in favor of the nation’s highest placeholder.
They would yank Senator Zachary Chandler, a Radical Republican who pressed President Lincoln to arm freed slaves against the South in the Civil War, and who led the fight against slavery in Washington DC.
In order to put up “Everybody Loves†Gerry Ford.
Chandler
An aroused citizenry could stop this travesty. Statue flipping began only in 2003 with Eisenhower. California is dumping one of it’s existing statues to make way for the beloved Ronald Reagan, but they’ve spared us Nixon so far. [Notice a pattern here?]
The Joint Committee on the Library of Congress has to sign off on dumping Chandler for Ford, so let them know you want Gerry in his place.
That would be over on the Senate side, in the Veep bust collection.
