Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Cheshire Connecticut is marking the one time residence of a future president, marred only by the fact they don’t know where exactly he lived.
“It is believed Ford lived somewhere in the area of the Ball and Socket factory around Warren Street while he coached football and attended Yale Law School from 1935 to 1941.“
They’ve solved this by sprinkling signs all over town.
It’s Beige! 
Architectural Digest features a loving farewell to the Bush’s transformation of the White House into the House of Beige, and yet another front in George W. Bush’s lifelong struggle with his dad.
“We knew what he wanted,†says the First Lady. “We knew he wanted it to be a sunny office that showed an optimist worked there.†In the middle of the rug she and [designer Kenneth] Blasingame affixed the presidential seal, then added rays that shoot off it like the rays of the sun.”
They might also be seen as a nod to the first guys who tried to kill Bush’s Dad 
– Japanese fighter pilots in World War II.
Not to defend the Clinton look, 
but Bush’s color scheme lacks, er, color.
“The president wanted his office to be fresh,†says Blasingame, “and we changed its colors. The drapes are almost a bronzy color, and the walls are ecru. Ecru is the color of parchment, and it has a crisp quality.†The same clean and crisp color was later used in another room in which presidents conduct business—the Cabinet Room. The Vermeil Room across the hall …a neutral color, ecru again.”
This Close 
The SMU Daily Campus reports that the University finally announces the Bush Library Friday.
Watch the skies!
Stuffed 
Opponents of the proposed Oyster Bay Long Island Theodore Roosevelt museum call the trim, new look museum proposal a mess still. TheSaveFiremansFieldians look at the numbers, and say cutting the Roosevelt’s size a non-response to the real questions.
“The fact of the new “scaled back” version of the TR Museum does nothing to change the fact that the Firemen’s Field site in Oyster Bay is approached by only two lane roads from a perimeter area of 5 miles. How will the little Hamlet of Oyster Bay be able to handle all that traffic. After first indicating the museum would attract 500,000 visitors a year, the Theodore Roosevelt Association has now scaled back that projection to just 100,000 visitors a year, in a vein attempt to make the proposal more attractive to the hamlet. Even 100,000 visitors would swamp our little community, but the fact is that the original figure of 500,000 – at LEAST that – is far more accurate.”
And the Field Savers aren’t standing still. They’ve invaded the myspace, with the stirring cry,
“ Groups and individuals with parking concerns should join with us to defend the field.”
Looking Elsewhere 
As the Bush Legacy tour makes the rounds in Africa, the President has sunk to new lows with the American public at home.
George Bush is marking President’s Day Week by falling below 20%, a record new low.
