Archive for January, 2009

Lasting Impressions 
The departing administration’s list of presidential  gifts from foreigners is itself a delight, revealing some gifters’ self images, or at least how they’d like to be seen.
Famed Bush poodle Tony Blair presented the President with a classic dog whistle, a Wedgwood bowl inscribed with the words ‘‘Am I Not a Man and a […]


Won’t You Be Mine? 
No product moving opportunity is missed by the Nixon Library Foundation, whose latest email invites us to associate Richard Nixon and romance, with the sparkling addition of the right’s scariest  harridan.
Love Hurts   


Charm Only Goes So Far 
Further exploration of history’s hole for George W. Bush, with Stanley Fish’s claim Bush’s infectious charm will win in the end disputed by America’s greatest living Warren G. Harding reputationist.
Phillip Payne’s  Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy  won’t come out till the last last days […]