Nixon Hosed
17-Nov-08
The New Nixon reports on efforts to protect the Nixon birthplace from fire, with continuous hosing down by Nixon Foundation staff.
Remembering history the way they wished it had been
The New Nixon reports on efforts to protect the Nixon birthplace from fire, with continuous hosing down by Nixon Foundation staff.
So far the Yorba Linda fires appear to be west of the Nixon Birthplace, Grave, Wedding Chapel and Museum, but watch the skies!Â
Excitable locals are monitoring the situation.
As he shows Barack Obama around to measure the White House drapes,  George W. Bush can take quiet pride knowing that he has secured another presidential first, surpassing Richard Nixon in the American people’s dislike.
Seventy-six percent disapprove of Bush’s performance, compared with sixty-Six percent for Nixon as he boarded the last chopper ride.
All Bush needs now is for a magnanimous President Obama to pardon him, and the healing will begin!
Spot The Uninvited Guest!
  The Nixon Legacy lives on, in the form of the desperate schemes his presidential library was forced to undertake before they collapsed into the arms of the National Archives.
Now the Archives runs a lot of the place, but the Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation still controls some of the buildings and grounds.
The centerpiece of their tiny realm is a “recreation” of the White House East Room,   if the East Room had monster skylights.
In the words of Nixon daughter Julie Eisenhower, “It’s more beautiful than I expected“.
Wedding guests do the usual classy wedding things…
The Kansas City Star’s Brian Burnes is digging deep in the Eisenhower archives, and oh the treasures he’s found.
 The Kansas native who reluctantly sent federal troops to integrate Little Rock schools is held up as a civil rights pioneer. The evidence: Ike wrote letters, and location, location,location!
1. Eisenhower stormed the margins of polite opinion.
“Correspondence also indicated that Eisenhower wrote to Billy Graham and asked him to provide feedback about current and future race relations.”
And who better than Billy “Stranglehold” Graham to discuss prejudice?
2. As a child, Eisenhower was, once, sometime, somewhere near “minorities” of unknown derivation.
“A picture of Eisenhower from his 1909 graduating class shows two minorities, which Burnes said is an indication that Ike, even at an early age, did seem to have a feeling about other races.”
Feeling is healing!