The Spreading Contagion

Seem Familiar? rabin-center.JPG

An Israeli museum dedicated to Yitzhak Rabin compares itself to American Presidential Libraries, and it’s on the same path fueled by foreign money.

The Rabin received German and American government donations of $5 million apiece, and continues to fund-raise here.

clinton-rabin-center.jpgBill Clinton appears at Rabin events, and while not yet dead is honored by the “William J. Clinton and Hillary R. Clinton Memorial Gardens.” There is also a Reagan names project-like running tally on places and things named for the late great.

Reagan’s Wretched

Sanctuary City Upon A Hill reagan-statue-of-liberty.jpg

It appears that the Polish-born Australian citizen who directed the Reagan Legacy Project had no right to work in the land of opportunity. Michael Kamburowski had no green card and no social security number while memorializing Reagan, presumably taking a job an American could have done.

Kamburowski was outed while serving as a California Republican Party official, but his troubles apparently date to his first jobs in the US with Grover Norquist’s Legacy Project.

The Bush Telegraph

The Road Ahead bush-telegraph.gif

It’s not quite the Reagan Legacy Project, but George W. Bush finally has something named for himself.

bush-ghana-the-george-bush-motorway.jpg The George Bush Motorway will run proudly through Ghana, West Africa. Perhaps coincidentally, our President was visiting their President, and the road will be paid for by the United States.

And then it was on to Liberia. bush-liberia.jpg

Gerald Ford, The Proud Decades

Ford, Old 4 ford-forth.jpg

Cheshire Connecticut is marking the one time residence of a future president, marred only by the fact they don’t know where exactly he lived.

It is believed Ford lived somewhere in the area of the Ball and Socket factory around Warren Street while he coached football and attended Yale Law School from 1935 to 1941.

They’ve solved this by sprinkling signs all over town.

ford-cheshire-historical-society.jpg

Our House

It’s Beige! bush-oval-office.jpg

Architectural Digest features a loving farewell to the Bush’s transformation of the White House into the House of Beige, and yet another front in George W. Bush’s lifelong struggle with his dad.

“We knew what he wanted,” says the First Lady. “We knew he wanted it to be a sunny office that showed an optimist worked there.” In the middle of the rug she and [designer Kenneth] Blasingame affixed the presidential seal, then added rays that shoot off it like the rays of the sun.”

They might also be seen as a nod to the first guys who tried to kill Bush’s Dad japanesewarflag1.jpg – Japanese fighter pilots in World War II.

Not to defend the Clinton look, clinton-oval-office.jpg but Bush’s color scheme lacks, er, color.


“The president wanted his office to be fresh,” says Blasingame, “and we changed its colors. The drapes are almost a bronzy color, and the walls are ecru. Ecru is the color of parchment, and it has a crisp quality.” The same clean and crisp color was later used in another room in which presidents conduct business—the Cabinet Room. The Vermeil Room across the hall …a neutral color, ecru again.”