On to Buffalo! 
William McKinley’s last use in a contemporary campaign was Karl Rove’s mad scheme to present George W. Bush as the Big Mc of our generation, achieving solid Republican rule by persuading the scruffies to vote against their interests.
It worked with Bush, at least as far as the minstrel show 2000 campaign. It might again, but seems twice-musty for the already age-inflicted John McCain. The fighting Arizonan made the comparison anyway to USATODAY, dismissing Barack Obama as the new boy orator:
“If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president.”
Gold Standard References 
Danger Under The Domes? 
An Ex-KGB man claims the agency stopped a Moscow assassination attempt on both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.
Valeriy Nikolaevich Velichko leaks the barely plausible tale to Komsomolskaya Pravda:
“Generals of the former Ninth Division are proud to have prevented an assassination attempt on Reagan in Moscow. In 1988, they received a warning that a journalist who would be accredited during Reagan’s visit was intent on committing an act of terrorism — to kill two presidents at once: Reagan and Gorbachev. They took action. The journalist turned out to be terminally ill with cancer. He had received a large sum — over 6 figures — to commit the crime. But he was caught and deported from the country.”
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.”
New Light on Old Presidents 
One former Korean President is pursuing Carter-ization, demonstrably simple living joined with good works, while a murder has called attention to a dead former President’s political afterlife.
The New York Times reports that Roh Moo-hyun’s just plain folksiness is wowing em back in his hometown, and he’s remaining visible elsewhere through his web site.
Former strongman Park Chung-hee 
[took power in a coup, killed in office by head of KCIA] is back in the news after a murder at his former home, 
preserved as a monument to his humble roots.
And, um, service to Korea’s former Japanese overlords.
Harvard University Press is gushing over it’s new title, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“This is the unvarnished story.”
Also, apparently, un-reviewed by historians other than the author.
