Education Abroad  
Richard Nixon son-in-law and New York McCain campaign chair Ed Cox sees haunting parallels between Veep-To-Be Sarah Palin and Tricky Dick*. 
The secret of Nixon’s success? Near death experiences at the hands of foreign mobs!
“Eisenhower in 1952 was also old for a person to be elected president …He had this young senator from California named Richard Nixon. He sent him on an around-the-world trip. Because of his intellectual interest in it, and because of what he was, he was able to learn the way of the world very quickly.”
And it weren’t no book learnin.
*Somehow she’s also Fighting Harry.
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.
Birth of the Legend 
A retired Ghanaian Army man is making an outsider run for President, and one of the barriers he must overcome is his name: Richard Nixon Tetteh.
Nixon had a history in West Africa.
Ghana’s independence celebration attracted political personalities from throughout Africa and the world as the first country freed from colonial rule. Eisenhower dispatched the Vice President to carry the flag amidst the Marxists and Pan-Africanists. At the celebratory ball Nixon legendarily slapped a man on the back, asking “How does it feel to be free?” The man replied “I wouldn’t know, I’m from Alabama.â€
In one version, Nixon’s encounter was with Martin Luther King, who was in Ghana for the celebration.
One Man, Our Vote 
Greg Grandlin offers a roundup of one interested party’s role in the last twelve presidential elections, and perhaps on his last one.
“Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate” clocks el Lider Maximo’s walk-ons and cameos over five decades.
Vote Early & Vote Often 
When Golf Was King 
Golf Digest takes a loving look back at Eisenhower era on the links. Even they are astonished at Ike’s days wandering the fields, and a handy chart allows you to track his obsessive play day by day. 
All part of a package of nostalgia and list making, the highlight of which is their lament for the death of Washington golf.
Thanks Guys! 
Fixer to the stars Jack Abramoff’s Scottish trip ruined it for everybody apparently. No one admits to playing anymore, and…
“As a result of a ban imposed on gifts and services, lobbyists have to pay thousands of dollars to play in elected officials’ fund-raisers to spend time with them on the golf course — hardly a bonding opportunity.”
But Cavalier of Change
Barack Obama golfs, so hope springs eternal. 
