The Berlin Wall has been down 18 years today, but America never tires of the old concrete chunks left over. Pieces grace all your finer Presidential Libraries, no matter how strained their relationship is to the Wall.
And we usually display them West side out with all the pretty graffiti.
Roosevelt: 
only link is this hideous sculpture made by a Churchill Granddaughter from Wall.
Truman: 
see where she got the semi-human shapes above? Still more Churchill relative art at Westminster College where Truman invited Churchill to let rip.
Eisenhower: none – Wall but a gleam in Walter Ulbrecht’s eye then. 
Kennedy: 
because it was built on his watch?
Johnson: sadly, no.
Nixon: 
because it existed simultaneously with his Presidency?
Ford: 
same as above, and US established diplomatic relations with DDR.
Carter: none.
Reagan: 
leapt into the future and tore down his own-self.
Plus one inside: 
Plus at the Ronald Reagan Building in DC: 
Plus one at the “Reagan Ranch” [downhill from it in Santa Barbara]: 
Bush: 
fell while in office.
Another, indoors: 
Other Americans have different ways of displaying the Wall: 
You can’t find your place in history when someone shuffles the pages
From washingtondecoded via historynewsnetwork comes a new interpretation of Lyndon Johnson’s decent into Vietnam: LBJ, the Best & the Brightest’s first victim.
“What Did LBJ Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis? And When Did He Know It?” pivots on the fact that Johnson was cut out of the final deal which settled the Missile Crisis. Johnson was somewhat involved in Kennedy Administration policy making during the events, but nobody told LBJ the US pulled it’s missiles from Turkey in trade for Soviets taking theirs from Cuba. Then or later.
Leaving the Sage of the Pedernales to buy the hype: cool, calm JFK masterfully staring down the blinking Russians. 
Que Vietnam! 
“False history led to mistaken lessons, including a belief in the efficacy of calibrated force, which helped prevent Johnson from seriously entertaining the concessions necessary for a negotiated political solution to the Vietnam War… not only was LBJ deliberately shut out as vice president, but the tape recordings show that he was still in the dark years after he became president, when he was presumably entitled, and urgently needed, to understand the knowable truth behind Kennedy’s spectacular success…. LBJ’s unspoken presumption was that the same men who were at Kennedy’s side in October 1962 would surely see Johnson through to a similar, unmitigated victory, regardless of the differences. And if they could not, conversely, that suggested something LBJ did not want to countenance: that the only real difference was in the president who led this assemblage of the best and the brightest.”
Next year’s 100th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s birth has launched a commemorative effort involving all the Texas institutions named for him or the family.
No details on the web site but you can sign up anyway.
The Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library got a bump in attendance in the wake of Lady Bird Johnson’s death, and they have hopes of keeping the magic alive with a new exhibit featuring the man himself.
Tourists with a hankering to discuss the saga of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill and other career highlights will enjoy the presence of a an LBJ reenactor until mid 2008.
Johnson will be played by local Austin actor Michael Stuart, who has impersonated the tall Texan before.
Stuart [hatted] played Johnson in a local production of “The Dead Presidents Club”
Keeping him company is the presidential musum’s permanent exhibit featuring an animatronic Johnson cracking jokes.
only link is this hideous sculpture made by a Churchill Granddaughter from Wall.
see where she got the semi-human shapes above? Still more Churchill relative art at Westminster College where Truman invited Churchill to let rip.
because it was built on his watch?
because it existed simultaneously with his Presidency?
same as above, and US established diplomatic relations with DDR.
leapt into the future and tore down his own-self.
fell while in office.
