Karl to Comment? 
Amidst the dazzle of Dallas’s Bush Library-To-Be is an element of vindication seeking, that the immortal stain of the Kennedy assassination be lifted from the city.
Change Of Subject 
Others aren’t sure a Bush Library will do the trick. The Dallas Observer‘s Jim Schutze points to the multiple investigations underway of Bush Administration’s war conduct, and the plausible result: war crimes indictments.
“I’m not really asking you to take a position one way or the other on whether any of it will stick. I’m just pointing out that if Southern Methodist University goes ahead …then all of this will stick right here…First we get the video of the people…bringing war crimes allegations against Bush and his key aides. Then we cut to Dallas for the reaction shot… Karl Rove, chief warden of the think tank, pooh-poohing war crimes. We are about to become the world capital of war crimes pooh-poohing.”
Leaving Dallas hoping for forgetfulness.
“If your only source of information on all this were the Morning News, you might come away thinking the main question is how valuable Bush will be to local tourism. Better than the Wax Museum? Better than the Kennedy assassination? We earn our tourists the hard way. Soon enough, the News tells its readers, all the quibbles about George Bush’s policies will pass into that bland miasma we never really paid much attention to in the first place—i.e., history.”
Get Me Central 
Thrilling new tapes from the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library are released, showing his intense identification with Israel.
All well and good, but tales of American presidents and the plucky Jewish State are beginning to get mushy. We’ve had Harry Truman’s recognition of Israel commemorated, a hideous Kennedy memorial defaces the Jerusalem 
landscape, and Johnson’s Jewish ties are being extended back to his first term in Congress.
With some unfortunate photo placement.
The effect of all this is to extend the current US role as Israeli’s godfather back in time, burying the whole period when France provided nuclear technology and most of their conventional weapons, and of Czechoslovakia’s arms during the War of Independence.
The anachronistic centrality we are seeing starts is beginning to resemble the hemp cultists 
counting past presidents who grew the crop.
Seat Of Power 
Having once born the assess of greatness, a wooden bench returns to it’s humble place of origin, the Milwaukee Journal.
John and Jackie Kennedy brought the Kennedy Magic to Milwaukee in the 1960 campaign, and a now storied piece of furniture had it’s brush with greatness. After a wandering career as retirement gift to a newspaper executive, the bench on which history’s fun couple sat is going back to the Journal courtesy of current owners The Nature Conservancy.
The furniture’s fate when the paper goes to that great recycling bin in the sky is unknown.
Future Ford Afloat! 
Who’d a thunk we’d turn to ESPN’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” to point out oddities at sea, but Gregg Easterbrook is on to something peculiar in the Navy’s naming schemes.
The troubled USS Gerald Ford, paired with Reagan and Bush Sr. ships, sent him over the edge.
“TMQ finds repugnant this blatant Pentagon favoritism for Republicans. Gerald Ford was never elected to national office: he was appointed to the vice presidency, then became president by succession when Richard Nixon resigned. The never-elected, half-term Ford will have a supercarrier named for him while Clinton, a two-term president twice chosen by U.S. voters, does not.”
Bush Is Gear 
A groundswell [or tsunami?] for Gerry is difficult to detect. The wingers at Newsmax ran petitions to name the ship for Ford, even touting USS Ford caps. Their site is Ford-free of merchandise now, if it ever carried it.
And lest we forget, the USS John F.Kennedy was retired last year.
