Last night Stephen Colbert took the campaign for Reagan money to exciting new heights, with a proposal to hijack upcoming changes in the Lincoln penny in order to provide a fitting salute to Ronald Reagan.
In 2009 the penny will be coming out in four versions, each with a panel illustrating an aspect of Lincoln’s life.
Colbert would insert “Reagan teaching Lincoln that slavery was wrong” in order to “do the right thing and honor America’s finest leader. And Lincoln. he was pretty good too.”
A spectre is haunting the Presidency. Or two of them. 
Tales of presidential ghosts, just in time for the candy filled delights of Halloween. The McClatchy-Tribune News Service tells the tale of a John F. Kennedy rocker which keeps creaking at Yosemite’s Ahwahnee Hotel 
“When President John F. Kennedy stayed on the third floor in 1962, a rocking chair was placed in his room so he could rock and help alleviate his chronic back pain. After Kennedy’s death, housekeepers began reporting seeing a chair rocking slowly in the room where the president had stayed — even though the room hasn’t been furnished with a rocking chair since Kennedy’s visit.”
Elsewhere, Britannica Blog points to strange doings in Yorba Linda:
“Shortly after Nixon was entombed on the grounds in 1994, a night watchman reported seeing a luminous green mist over the president’s grave. 
He also heard tapping sounds emanating from an exhibit room”
PC World offers a tutorial on how to cheat on the Lessons Of History: Photoshop it.
Dave Johnson offers step by step instructions on how to do it just like the golden days of yesteryear in the USSR, when Trotsky and others disappeared
before and after
from photographs, and often the world.
The starting point is of course Elvis and Nixon at the White House. 
Their standing in cultural memory may be indicated in the fact that it’s Nixon who has to go
and “your name here” steps into the breach. 
One reason for the Republican candidate competition to out Ronnie one another is that President Reagan didn’t leave as public a paper trail as Richard Nixon.
ABC’s hard hitting investigative reporter Brian Ross illustrates the point today with a straight from his Bat Phone 
report. It’s the latest version of what is becoming a beloved classic: Richard Nixon dumping on young Fred Thompson.
The old war horse saying Thompson 
“isn’t very smart…But he’s friendly” never loses it’s charm. It also isn’t terribly new.
The New York Times had all the quotes in August, and a not very comprehensive Google search finds 1997 Wall Street Journal mentions from the last big Nixon tape dump.
Ross does provide a public service by putting a tape excerpt on the ABC News site
The wisdom of Mr. President regarding Vicente Fox’s “Daily Show” interview shared with Jon Stewarts’ many viewers, or at least that subset who scribble away on the show’s message boards.
Some of whom labor under the delusion that Fox is part of Aztlan on the march. 
