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My recollections of the Kennedy Library are that it’s about average for the category – Oval Office repo, press conference excerpts where he knocks ’em out of the park. But this ad campaign is pretty fabulous.

And half a century later, Nixon still can’t compete.

“Situated in southern California just 15 minutes from Disneyland, the Nixon Library is a dramatic roller coaster ride through half a century of California, U.S. and world history!”

Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off?

Hey! It’s Lyndon Johnson’s 100th birthday!

Who can resist round, and somewhat large numbers? The Johnson Centennial folks hope you can’t.

To the extent there is a unified theme it appears to be a version of get ‘er done-ish hymns to his domestic labors. Recent events may have made competence in execution a hot selling point, but they are conspicuously silent on Vietnam.

Johnson is but the beginning of what we can only hope becomes known as the Centennial Century.

First up is Lincoln, technically coming back for seconds at his bicentenary in 2009. Reagan looms in 2011, and by golly maybe they’ll get him slapped on Rushmore by then.

The Nixon Library is already marking his 95th birthday, so look out in 2013. I’ve been unable to detect any Kennedy 2017 activity, but a boy can dream.

British Conservatives Look Back in Anger

It ain’t just disgruntled Labour supporters in Britain who dislike the current US president.

British Conservative blogger Ian Dale has polled his largely Conservative readership on ranking US Presidents since World War II. It’s not a scientific poll, but even these hardened fans of the smack of firm government view Bush the Younger as a walking disaster.

The rankings:
Franklin D Roosevelt +67
Dwight Eisenhower +59
Harry Truman +53
Ronald Reagan +50
John F Kennedy +40
Bill Clinton + 20
George Bush Snr -4
Lyndon Johnson -19
Gerald Ford -20
Jimmy Carter -40
Richard Nixon -42
George W Bush -48

Proof that Conrad Black is not a crank?

From BAGnewsNotes, “a prgressive blog dedicated to the political, psychological and media analysis of news images..”

Further emanations from the ghost of Gerald Ford. Or rather his publisher.

Hard to tell what exactly though. “FlatSigned Press“ re-published the Warren Commission report two years ago with some later ad-ons from Ford. BULLETIN: OSWALD DID IT! It came in several versions, including the leather bound with a ribbon marker edition. For extra swank and to keep one foot in the conspiracy camp, you could order the boxed $889 version, containing “artifacts from the Oak Tree and White Picket Fence from the “Grassy Knoll!” ” Classy!

Then in April this year they published still another edition, retitled “A Presidential Legacy and The Warren commission.” And lord only knows what’s in this one.

The breathless and way incoherent press release tries to hint at everything, then wanders off into dead ends.

“This week is the first ever anniversary since the passing of all members of the Warren Commission. The book, “A Presidential Legacy and The Warren Commission,” provides a new look into the mind of a former president in his final years and is the only source for Ford’s final written words in book format on the subject of the John F. Kennedy assassination, 9-11 and other major events of American history leading up to his death just months ago in December of 2006…A major retailer had negotiated for an exclusive offering of the hand- signed version of this book but later backed out fearing negative ramifications. So the American people heard this news because they heard it here.”

And more:

.” President Ford specifically and by name, debunked Oliver Stone’s theories and his movie and for the first time anywhere, gave us great information about how his brief administration and key figures he appointed then, still determine policy for the American people.”

How exactly did good old Gerry Ford fall in with these shysters?