Now With Actual Documents!
Published by mr.president April 14th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORRichard Nixon’s Not-Quite-Presidential-Enough Library has long since surrendered to the National Archives. The Nixon’s standalone “we don’t really need his presidential papers” stance collapsed a year ago July when they finally entered the federal government’s warm embrace.
Now they need space for actual documents, you know, like a library! But fear not. As they have so many times, the feds are bailing Nixon out with cash for a new wing!
The Library’s complicated real estate, which a recent visitor says has the National Archives controlling part of the complex and the Nixon Foundation[the leftover of the bad old days] controlling the rest, can only get screwier.
