Richard Nixon’s Search For Love
18-Jan-09
No product moving opportunity is missed by the Nixon Library Foundation, whose latest email invites us to associate Richard Nixon and romance, with the sparkling addition of the right’s scariest harridan.
Further exploration of history’s hole for George W. Bush, with Stanley Fish’s claim Bush’s infectious charm will win in the end disputed by America’s greatest living Warren G. Harding reputationist.
Phillip Payne’s Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy won’t come out till the last last days of Bush, but Payne is got his licks in before the current President leaves.
“Nostalgic discussions of the good ol’ days of good ol’ W will surely become discussions of why Katrina wasn’t really Bush’s fault, why preemptive war  worked, why the Freedom Agenda was a noble idea, and so forth and so on. Otherwise Bush’s ultimate fate is obscurity.”



