Honor Roll 
Brussels journall takes the time to go where the streets have no name, or at least not ones it approves of. Thanks to the ceaseless proliferation of web-based tools they offer what can only be hoped is the definitive survey of
Belgian Streets Named after US Presidents
Road-map to the Stars 
Why-ever they might feel this way is unaddressed, although Donald Rumsfeld‘s thoughtful intervention overturning Belgium’s war crimes law recently can’t have helped.
No Walk-ons! 
Steve Clemons provides a Richard Nixon footnote to the nation’s tearful remembrance of the gun-bearer’s Moses, Charlton Heston.
Clemons was handling some of the Nixon funeral logistics, and called Heston to inquire if the great man would visit the sacred ground in Yorba Linda.
“When I asked Mr. Heston if he would like to attend President Nixon’s funeral, his response was: “In what capacity?”
I wasn’t sure what he meant, so I repeated the question of whether he’d like to attend and whether he would need a limo/town car pass — and told him that I’d make arrangements for him in the family section.
He said, “I thank you for all that — but will I have a role?”
I said I couldn’t really arrange that. After all, we already had a program that featured Billy Graham, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, California Governor Pete Wilson, and others*.
And then he said, “No, I can’t attend. Thank you for the offer.”
”
My Way 
*Here Clemons carries on a Nixon Library tradition. Bill Clinton also spoke at the funeral, but a mid-90s Library photo exhibit on the service managed to exclude any image showing Clinton.
Hillary Walks! 
The Associated Press says Hillary Clinton has narrowly escaped testifying about hundreds of FBI files the White House amassed during her husband’s administration.
“Had Clinton been forced to testify, it would have rekindled a controversy in the midst of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.”
“Controversy” implies items in dispute, and the AP let the clowns suing Clinton refer to her as “the defendant.” But according to the Associated Press:
“An Independent Counsel report in 2000 found no evidence of wrongdoing by White House aides or Clinton.”
Whatever might have happened?
Clinton patsy Ken Starr deposed Hillary Clinton on this in 1998. And in the end, the Independent Counsel Final Report In Re: Anthony Marceca said Hillary didn’t do it, and it didn’t exist.
“…there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official, or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was involved in seeking confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation background reports of former White House staff from the administrations of President Bush and President Reagan.”
“The Independent Counsel has, however, concluded that the allegations giving rise to this Office’s investigation of the matter were not substantiated by the evidence.”
Game Face 
Yet another holiday is wholly incorporated into the universal White House calendar.
The Clinton Library glommed onto the White House Easter Egg Roll, but holding it’s event a week earlier.
Giving us the disturbing image of Presidential Heads on Sticks.
But Clinton is merely following the proud tradition of other past Presidents who can’t let go of that
South Lawn feeling. 
In Crawford a “Western White House Easter Egg Roll” 
appropriating the event name appears to be a Bush fan effort, gathering tough Texans indoors this year and last.
Today’s actual event at the White House featured, as always in recent years. the most pointless of a pointless category:
The Missing Millions 
The Bush White House’s signature style has been to dodge responsibility for it’s actions and havoc wrought by claiming to be “looking ahead” while not engaging in a “blame game.” Another trick is to package the unpalatable and unexplained as being part of a “program,” torture euphemism being the most prominent example.
Their latest exercise is less ghastly, but still one of the greats.
In a Good Friday court filing, the Bush Administration says many of it’s missing millions of emails are dead, and there will be no resurrection. The White House is placing it’s faith in the howling news chasm of the holiday weekend to disappear the story, and it appears it’s faith will be rewarded.
The White House filing says that, besides disabling an existing system to archive email, they now admit they destroyed computer hard drives without saving all the emails on them. They told the court that recovering emails from where the Bush Administration’s inattention or deceit put them would be hard or impossible because of this “refresh program,” so the judge should give them a pass.
The Associated Press is reporting the story off the White House filing, apparently alone in all the world. It’s story is worth reading in full, if only to appreciate the baldness of the Administration’s contempt, actual if not legal. Over and above the details of this case, every Administration is obligated to preserve all it’s records. The endless quibbling over access come later.
The National Security Archive and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have been fighting the White House on this, and their web sites have nothing on the latest White House whimsy. 
Media worthies who soiled themselves this week crosschecking the Hillary Clinton schedules with Presidential blow-jobs have been silent so far.
But nothing slows down White House preparation for Monday’s Easter Egg Roll.
Hope you had a great Sunshine Week! 
