What Would Lyndon Drive?
The National Park Service faces a dilemma.
LBJ Ranch visitors have always had to park and load unto buses, which would take them to the big house. Visitors are declining, and his ranch office opens for the birth centenary in August. The Austin American-Statesman reports that the Park Service and the Johnson family want to let visitors drive onto the ranch to boost numbers. But former Ranch staffers, led by a former NPS Chief Historian say cars will compromise the park’s historic integrity.
Where the hell did Reagan Road come from? 
The Richmond Virginia Chamber of Commerce says the town needs a vision, and one key to putting it all together is …..brace yourself….A PRESIDENTIAL MUSEUM!
Sadly, Richmond At The Crossroads is silent on exactly which president[s] to museum- ize.
“Make increasing tourism a major priority by [1] developing the James River, [2]
building a presidential museum and monument to religious freedom, and [3]
enhancing the convention center with surrounding night life and public safety.”
They’ve got a couple at hand.
The problem may lie in keeping these guys at bay.
As so often before, it has fallen to Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Congressman and former Reagan speech writer, to find the bright side of the some 80,000 items missing at the Reagan Library.
“Missing memorabilia adds to the mystique of the Reagan years”
Crime Scene
The eyes of all the people are on Ronald Reagan‘s Museum Upon A Hill, where the Los Angeles Times reports a National Archives Inspector General finding that the Reagan Library has had some inventory shrinkage.
“The audit found that the Reagan library was unable to properly account for more than 80,000 artifacts out of its collection of some 100,000 such items, and “may have experienced loss or pilferage the scope of which will likely never be known.”
The suspects are incompetent record keeping and light-fingered staff. We are assured that measures will be taken.
This isn’t the first time that items have wandered off from the Reagan. When White House staffers were researching then Supreme Court nominee John Roberts they traveled to the Reagan to study Roberts’ paper trail as a Reagan White House staffer. And an unknown number of Roberts documents went missing.
So why again do we have these little islands of documents and valuables scattered over the countryside?
Make It So!
Ominous rumblings from West Africa.
A candidate for Presidet of Ghana has pledged to build a Presidential Library for Kwame Nkrumah, the nation’s first President.
Never-mind he already has a mausoleum 
built on the spot he declared Ghana’s independence 50 years ago, and an attached museum. 
The pledge of course came during a campaign swing through Nkrumah’s home region.
Nkrumah was a major big deal in his day. He was leader of the first post-colonial independent African nation and a promoter of Pan Africanism, but that didn’t work out.
The existing mausoleum/museum complex may reflect the difficulties of man and movement. The designers struggled to reconcile Nkruman’s professed admiration for both Ghandi and Lenin, apparently by having the supersized statue in front dressed modestly. 
