Nixon Foundation Executive Director John H. Taylor has issued a stirring call to the faithful, those who might feel a little lost in world gone mad and Nixon Library gone federal.
And yes, Nixon still didn’t do it.
“So newly available documents and tapes weren’t enough for some scholars and reporters as the new Nixon Library prepared to open its doors. They required an act of public expiation and sanctification, namely the smiting of the beast of the old Nixon Library Watergate gallery, that last lonely place where the lingering possibility flickered of a malfunctioning Uher 5000.”
And then it gets weird:
“…the Nixon Library has finally been washed clean – the price President Nixon’s family and friends needed to pay before his Library could finally be admitted to the fraternity honoring all the paragons of high achievement and moral purity represented in the Presidential library system, which starts with Herbert Hoover and goes through Bill Clinton. ”
What’s he got against Hoover?
“Entourage” Sparks Nineties Narco Nostalgia Wave
“Medellin” may finally roll this season now that Vince and the lads appear to have funding, and another trapped in the 20th century character can’t seem to let go of Pablo Escobar either
One rock being turned over now that Democrats are back in power on Capitol Hill is the war in Columbia. Our government’s gallant Colombian allies murky roots among right wing narco death squads are being revealed, and casting a pall over trade negotiations.
But Bill Clinton remembers the good times, and the master of triangulation is being mustered to help bail Columbia out of it’s jam with Congressional Democrats. He’s received the coveted “Columbia is Passion” award* as his former (and Hillary’s current) pollster labors to show that dead Colombian trade unionists shouldn’t hurt ties with old friends.
*Devil-horned heart shaped object in a Plexiglas box. Quite the shelf meat for the Little Rock museum.
Written On The Wind
Twists remain in some quarters’ pants after Jimmy Carter’s botched critique of President Bush and his image abroad. The former President ducked when confronted with blowback, but not before the great and the good, and others, were mobilized to comment on his comment.
“Presidential Historian” Doug Brinkley was called on to state the obvious, that this was Carter’s harshest criticism ever. [Look for more wisdom from Brinkley as he settles into a new job fronting James Baker’s Rice University think tank.]
Then the reserve army of gasbaggery stepped forward to recall a more innocent time when saintly ex-office holders donned their togas solely for good. Others weren’t so sure..
[A side benefit of Media Matters’ roundup of people making up “unwritten rules” about Ex’s is that it dragged me back to the glory days of one offender, single term Republican Representative John LeBoutillier. After losing his seat at the height of the “Reagan Revolution,” like so many of us he found shelter on the world wide web. LeBoutillier ‘s upbeat version of himself haunts Newsmax to this day. Unmentioned in his bio is his ill-starred Counter Clinton Library, a non-existent entity with a web page which got some ink when Clinton was opening his museum. Then the dream died, and even the web page is gone. But keep hope alive. I once got the site’s ghost from a Newsmax link, and surely the technically adept could summon it back from the great beyond.]
History On The March
The Associated Press reports the Clinton Library Director is leaving, “moving back to his home state of Alabama” to run something called the Museum of Mobile.
No replacement named, nothing on Mobile’s web site. And poor Director Alsobrook still greets Clinton visitors.
Richard Nixon’s path of destruction
Nixon’s New Jersey home, birthplace of the Monica Crowley legend, is going down.
Current owners say neglect has rotted out much of the home, and it will be demolished.
So ends another chapter in the Nixon saga. The Disgraced Former President lived in the house until near his death. The home joins his Florida property in knockdown heaven, with the tangled web of San Clemente still spinning.
Nixon said he “intended” to donate San Clemente to the American people at one sticky point during Watergate, but sold to developers in the end. The proceeds helped finance the New Jersey property.
La Casa Pacifica still stands, surrounded by newer homes, some of which inherited crumbling portions of the wall Nixon built around the property.
The current owner of the New Jersey property unveils a new mystery, claiming that Japanese former owners intend to use some of the home’s interiors for a Nixon museum [one of two] to be built on Okinawa.
Can the island handle the excitement, the reproduction there of Clinton’s Hope Arkansas house not being enough for them?
