Sadly Lacking 
A supporter of adding Ronald Reagan to Mount Rushmore is taking the cargo cult route, a visual version of building the runways so the planes will come.
In the case of Fred J. Eckert it’s make the image and the statue will follow.
“I want to help hurry the inevitable,” vows the former Amassador to Fiji [and Tonga!], a one-term New York Congressman who took a safe Republican seat and lost it to a Democrat who’s held it ever since.
Jack Kemp calls the result “classy.” 
Thirteen Months Wear & Tear…Or Something More Ominous?
The Washington Post reports on a new theory for various oddities in Lincoln’s appearance and his maladies: he was a walking dead man.
Doctor John G. Sotos has written a book theorising that Lincoln suffered from an extremely rare genetic syndrome know as MEN 2B, which likely would have killed him with cancer.
In the course of discussing whether DNA testing of his genetic material would answer Lincoln’s medical mysteries the Post provides a handy guide to the relics of Father Abraham.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed in Washington has a skull fragments, hair and bloody clothing. 
Ford’s Theatre has bloody clothing, pillows and towels.
And The Chicago History Museum 
has Lincoln’s death bed with mattress and bloody bottom sheet.
Death Bed: Room for Abe & Pals Version 
Time Traveled in Vain? 
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Ford’s Theatre longs to be so much more than an assassination location. And with $40 million dollars they’ll try to pull it off.
The National Park Service and the Theatre have announced plans to raise big money and get big, dressing up the old dear with elevators, cafes, all the modern conveniences.
Across the street is the Peterson House, AKA “The House Where Lincoln Died.” 
The House will shed it’s bland town house-ness and be attached to a ten story building next door, soon to be home to the august “Center for Education and Leadership.”
Either education or leadership will include a “a tower of books, representing all the words that have been written about Lincoln’s life.”
Let’s enjoy some!
If these timeless verities fail you can always fall back on a modern classic: 
Last night Stephen Colbert took the campaign for Reagan money to exciting new heights, with a proposal to hijack upcoming changes in the Lincoln penny in order to provide a fitting salute to Ronald Reagan.
In 2009 the penny will be coming out in four versions, each with a panel illustrating an aspect of Lincoln’s life.
Colbert would insert “Reagan teaching Lincoln that slavery was wrong” in order to “do the right thing and honor America’s finest leader. And Lincoln. he was pretty good too.”
“Gov. Crist has clearly shown that he governs in a parallel manner to Ronald Reagan, to Abraham Lincoln”
Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer
The parallels are haunting!
