Up Where We Belong 
Gerald Ford’s former Colorado home is for sale, and the frenzy is unrestrained!
“To our knowledge, it has been generations since the home of a former President has been offered to the open marketplace…and this is the only one in history to have such a prized location.“
Well.
Ford’s own home in Alexandria Virginia has languished on the market lately. To our knowledge there have recently been two Nixons and a Kennedy sold, a Harding changed hands in 2004, a Reagan in 2000, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s former home is for rent.
No word if the Colorado Ford property includes his home x-ray machine.
On to Buffalo! 
William McKinley’s last use in a contemporary campaign was Karl Rove’s mad scheme to present George W. Bush as the Big Mc of our generation, achieving solid Republican rule by persuading the scruffies to vote against their interests.
It worked with Bush, at least as far as the minstrel show 2000 campaign. It might again, but seems twice-musty for the already age-inflicted John McCain. The fighting Arizonan made the comparison anyway to USATODAY, dismissing Barack Obama as the new boy orator:
“If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president.”
Gold Standard References 
Danger Under The Domes? 
An Ex-KGB man claims the agency stopped a Moscow assassination attempt on both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.
Valeriy Nikolaevich Velichko leaks the barely plausible tale to Komsomolskaya Pravda:
“Generals of the former Ninth Division are proud to have prevented an assassination attempt on Reagan in Moscow. In 1988, they received a warning that a journalist who would be accredited during Reagan’s visit was intent on committing an act of terrorism — to kill two presidents at once: Reagan and Gorbachev. They took action. The journalist turned out to be terminally ill with cancer. He had received a large sum — over 6 figures — to commit the crime. But he was caught and deported from the country.”
Role Model 
Richard Nixon continues to inspire, even from beyond.
Gay American Jim McGreevey’s resignation as New Jersey’s Governor prompted speculation he’d rise Nixon-like from the political grave, or not.
Now former New Jersey resident Nixon has returned to McGreevey’s life, but not in the good way. McGreevey’s embroiled in divorce proceedings with his wife, and claims his circumstances render him practically unemployable.
The wife’s lawyer John Post says McGreevey needs to buckle down and do a Nixon.
“Post dismissed the argument that McGreevey is unable to find work, saying even Richard Nixon wrote books and made money on the lecture circuit after resigning the presidency under the glare of impeachment.
“The notion that there is some notoriety or disgrace that can’t be overcome if the person wants to do it is another flaw in [McGreevey’s] analysis,” Post said.”
Karl to Comment? 
Amidst the dazzle of Dallas’s Bush Library-To-Be is an element of vindication seeking, that the immortal stain of the Kennedy assassination be lifted from the city.
Change Of Subject 
Others aren’t sure a Bush Library will do the trick. The Dallas Observer‘s Jim Schutze points to the multiple investigations underway of Bush Administration’s war conduct, and the plausible result: war crimes indictments.
“I’m not really asking you to take a position one way or the other on whether any of it will stick. I’m just pointing out that if Southern Methodist University goes ahead …then all of this will stick right here…First we get the video of the people…bringing war crimes allegations against Bush and his key aides. Then we cut to Dallas for the reaction shot… Karl Rove, chief warden of the think tank, pooh-poohing war crimes. We are about to become the world capital of war crimes pooh-poohing.”
Leaving Dallas hoping for forgetfulness.
“If your only source of information on all this were the Morning News, you might come away thinking the main question is how valuable Bush will be to local tourism. Better than the Wax Museum? Better than the Kennedy assassination? We earn our tourists the hard way. Soon enough, the News tells its readers, all the quibbles about George Bush’s policies will pass into that bland miasma we never really paid much attention to in the first place—i.e., history.”
