Memories Are Made of This 
Maryland State Senators are mobilizing to make Ronald Reagan Day a beloved state tradition every February 6th, and they are straining for personal anecdotes.
Senator Roy Dyson is a former Congressman bumped down to the minors. He told legislators a touching tale of Reagan gift cuff-links, but the effect was diminished by Dyson’s sloth.
“I have a pair of cufflinks, he gave them to me and asked me to give them to my father who was dying that year,” said Roy Dyson, who brought the slightly rusty cufflinks to show the committee but forgot them in his car.”
Virginia too looks ahead. The House of Delegates voted for a state Ronald Reagan Day, with a single dissenting vote. The reward for Delegate Lionell Spruill was to be mocked by family values Republicans for sponsoring a bill to prohibit motorists demonstrating their manhood by hanging rubber testicles beneath their vehicles.
Georgia is also addressing the loss of America’s President
. The Georgia Senate voted for a lengthy resolution crediting the late communicator with all things sunny and bright, with a shout out last clause alerting the fount of naming-anything-stationary-and-some-that-aren’t for Reagan, Grover Norquist:
“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project.”
Delaware too has fallen to the forces of infectious optimism, and the Wisconsin House passed a resolution with some dissent. With Reaganesque inattention to detail.
“Despite all the rhetoric, no one in that hallowed chamber pointed out that the resolution was to recognize “Feb. 6, 2007″ as Reagan day.”
01/30/07 Update:
Dover Delaware joins the parade.
Utah pauses to remember, although they seem a little uncertain:
“He seemed to speak with passion…”
Local Hero 
President Bush has hinted before that he’ll live in Dallas after this year, but he’s dropping more. 
He referred to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert at a recent meeting, saying “I have to be good because my mayor is in the room.” The Presidential Library presumptive at SMU continues to be plotted behind closed doors, and the temporary home for his archives has been rented in a Dallas suburb. 
He should be able to find a house. The region is a national leader in home foreclosures.
The Stump, In Happier Times 
Washington State now boasts the replica of a structure built for a Presidential event which never occurred, standing proudly at a different location.
The “McKinley Stump” is in Chehalis Washington’s evocatively named Recreation Park. It stood in various parts of town 100 years, but finally succumbed to ants and rot.
It was created for President McKinley, but never used by him. Theodore Roosevelt did speak from the stump, as did William Howard Taft before he was President. No word on what role America’s Fattest President might have had in starting the deterioration.
Damp but Determined 
The draw your own Bush Presidential Library contest has a week to go, and the oddities mount. The Chronicle of Higher Education features one new entry, which involves putting the library beneath fountains of water, suspended above a “lagoon.”
The troubled recent history of public memorials and water be damned!
Now More Than Ever Forever! 
We now know that Tricia Nixon’s Iowa Mccain appearance was only the scene setter in the Nixon Cox family’s new adventures in politics.
Tricia’s husband Ed Cox had previously roused from his thirty year slumber to flirt with challenging Hillary Clinton for Senate, only to retreat. This time they are all in.
Cox is McCain’s New York State Chair, and son Christoper Nixon Cox, 
Richard Nixon’s first grandson, is state campaign Executive Director.
The familiar rituals of resume inflation are beginning. Buffalo Business First reports that Eddie “served under three U.S. Presidents.” but even his law firm biography claims only his father in law and something a fair distance from Reagan’s side:
“He served former President Nixon in the international arena and was general counsel to a major energy agency which financed synthetic fuels projects under President Reagan.”
And Reagan killed the Synthetic Fuels Corporation.
