Less This 
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“You Let Me Supply The Pictures & I’ll Let You Write The Story.”Â
The late Reagan svengali Michael Deaver summed up the role of White House image creation, as the nation learns Barack Obama has hired Ronald Reagan’s White House Photographer Pete Souza to do the same job for him.
Apparently left at the curb is campaign photographer David Katz, 
 whose election night photo dump was popular enough to crash flickr.
Is the would-be monetization where it all went South?
Desert Foxy   
There is a special moment in every president’s life when the Saudi check for his presidential library arrives. But Ronald Reagan did better than that.
New Mideast tell-all A World of Trouble is packed with important revelations, but for our purposes the story that matters is about a man and a horse. Or several. And a briefcase full of diamonds.
Author Patrick Tyler shows Ronald Reagan scheming to keep two horses given him by our gallant Saudi allies, plotting with then [and current Bush] White House Counsel Fred Fielding to hide them on a neighbor’s ranch. The law required the president to donate the horses to the public.
Tyler points to a previously published excerpt from Reagan’s diaries confirming the scheme:
Nancy got $2 million dollars of diamonds, stashed at Harry Winston.
Reagan was endlessly photographed with his horse “El Alamein,” which Reagan received while in office from distinguished side-burn wearer 
and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo.
 How the horse was snuck past the lawyers is not known.
How all this squared with Reagan’s legendary rules to live by is also unknown.
“Reagan kept several horses at the ranch stable. He made sure that the Secret Service horses ate from separate hay troughs, because he did not want American taxpayers paying for his own horses feed. “
Glory Days  
Richard Nixon’s death-grip on the American political imagination has brought us opera, theatre, film and books beyond measure, but somehow the era’s creepiness never fades.
Now the impresarios of nixontapes.org, your go-to guys for hours of he-man presidential chatter, offer up the image of Watergate criminals whiling away their golden years listening to their younger selves plotting crimes with the Chief Executive.
The nixontape-ists are trying to corral the remaints of the Nixon era into its schemes by making them special mix tapes of their White House recordings.
At last, Brookings Bomber wannabe Chuck Colson can review his glory days before Jesus, in the comfort of home, office or car.
 whose election night photo dump was popular enough to crash flickr.
