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.
Gritty, Urban 
Laura Bush has unveiled an exciting new talking point for the Bush Library to come in Dallas:
“This will be the first truly urban location for a presidential library “
Meaning what exactly? George will be taking public transportation to work on his memoirs at the Library? And she is casually dissing the two existing Texas Presidential Libraries at Austin and College Station, one of which is her father-in-law’s.
Would A Cow Town Shine So Brightly? 
Richard Nixon’s Not-Quite-Presidential-Enough Library has long since surrendered to the National Archives. The Nixon’s standalone “we don’t really need his presidential papers” stance collapsed a year ago July when they finally entered the federal government’s warm embrace.
Now they need space for actual documents, you know, like a library! But fear not. As they have so many times, the feds are bailing Nixon out with cash for a new wing!
The Library’s complicated real estate, which a recent visitor says has the National Archives controlling part of the complex and the Nixon Foundation[the leftover of the bad old days] controlling the rest, can only get screwier.
No Walk-ons! 
Steve Clemons provides a Richard Nixon footnote to the nation’s tearful remembrance of the gun-bearer’s Moses, Charlton Heston.
Clemons was handling some of the Nixon funeral logistics, and called Heston to inquire if the great man would visit the sacred ground in Yorba Linda.
“When I asked Mr. Heston if he would like to attend President Nixon’s funeral, his response was: “In what capacity?”
I wasn’t sure what he meant, so I repeated the question of whether he’d like to attend and whether he would need a limo/town car pass — and told him that I’d make arrangements for him in the family section.
He said, “I thank you for all that — but will I have a role?”
I said I couldn’t really arrange that. After all, we already had a program that featured Billy Graham, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, California Governor Pete Wilson, and others*.
And then he said, “No, I can’t attend. Thank you for the offer.”
”
My Way 
*Here Clemons carries on a Nixon Library tradition. Bill Clinton also spoke at the funeral, but a mid-90s Library photo exhibit on the service managed to exclude any image showing Clinton.
Game Face 
Yet another holiday is wholly incorporated into the universal White House calendar.
The Clinton Library glommed onto the White House Easter Egg Roll, but holding it’s event a week earlier.
Giving us the disturbing image of Presidential Heads on Sticks.
But Clinton is merely following the proud tradition of other past Presidents who can’t let go of that
South Lawn feeling. 
In Crawford a “Western White House Easter Egg Roll” 
appropriating the event name appears to be a Bush fan effort, gathering tough Texans indoors this year and last.
Today’s actual event at the White House featured, as always in recent years. the most pointless of a pointless category:
