Now He Belongs To The Ages
Published by mr.president June 21st, 2008 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, POLITICAL HUMORBye: The Hype 
The apotheosis of Tim Russert has found it’s fitting climax in a Presidential Library [and Museum!]. Russert narrates the Lincoln Library’s “Campaign 1860″ exhibit, and Springfield’s State Journal-Register is leading calls to preserve it as a memorial within the memorial.
“Setting viewers straight on the views of candidates Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge and John Bell is the familiar, authoritative presence of Tim Russert…If a generation was to understand the bitterly contested presidential contest of 1860, who better to explain it than the man who guided America through the bitterly contested presidential contest of 2000?”
Indeed. Someday visitors may flock to the Springfield shrine to thrill to Tim. It can be the Tomorrowland of presidential museums, capturing forever how a major conduit for Bush administration Iraq flim-flammery could have such a hard hitting reputation.
