Arson Investigation[Simulation]
“Sleepless In Midland” gets all crime scene investigatory on the Bush home arson.
The blogger seems to believe they found the source of the crime:
“V” for Victory?
“…notice the “V” shape of the fire damage on the wall to the left of the front door suggesting that the heat spread upward from a point on the porch. And you can also see a charred spot on the cement porch that could be the spot where the fire investigators thought the fire originated. So one possible assumption is that an accelerant was poured on the cement porch and set ablaze. But a chemical analysis would be necessary to confirm that.”
Even as a long time fan of blurry grassy knoll action 
I have to confess I don’t see it.
For the Bush arson completist, the blog does provide a thoughtful link to the town’s press release regarding the fire.
Other Citizen-Journalists share their views.
In other Presidential Hot Spots, the Richard M. Nixon Recreational Center in Hyden Kentucky has had a boiler room fire. 
The Rec Center’s 1978 dedication was the scene of one of Nixon’s first public outings 
after his resignation, visiting the federal fund-loving mountain Republicans of the obscure hamlet.
From the Journal of vikisu202:
“the last few days have been essentially uneventful
monday: I went to the Richard Nixon Library with Neel, oliver, and michael. Michael was making completely inappropriate sexual jokes as usual. We only went for the extra credit for gov. Ironically, the only exhibit we wanted to see was watergate and it was “under construction”. It was one of the most boring museums ive ever been to. There were a billion random christmas trees everwhere though. At night, we went to austins house and ate a lot of food. We watched some tennis and hannah montana. then onto 2008!”
Spawning Ground of Jerry Voorhis’ Defeat?
His final place of exile 
in New Jersey is destroyed, the Key Biscayne 
“Florida White House” torn down, but a little piece of Richard Nixon still stands near Baltimore.
A building containing the apartment once rented by Lieutenant Richard Nixon in 1946 in being considered for landmark status.
Field of Dreams 
Oyster Bay Long Island residents opposing the proposed Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Museum location in his hometown have their web site up, and sort of running.
Their call to arms:
“Our purpose is to prevent this 3.5 acre multi-use public space / parking field from being used as the site of the proposed Theodore Roosevelt Library. Our group takes no official position on the existence, size or timing of the Library, only asking that it not be placed in Firemen’s Field. “
They explain that they’ll flesh out their objections in greater detail. That’s to be hoped for, because right now in defending the largely empty Firemen’s field they paint a portrait of elementary school students denied boat launching facilities, or something.
“It provides the only contiguous flat public view shed of the waterfront in downtown, and links the Roosevelt Elementary School’s playing field with the Roosevelt Park launching ramp and swimming beach.”
We shall of course provide complete coverage of the battle of the flood plain.
Home on the Range
First the Cheney office fire, now arson has struck a childhood home of President Bush.
Odessa Texas’s thoughtful recreation of mid-American mid-century middle class splendor 
has suffered damage to “the green carpet inside the living room, the mid-20th century radio console near the door and the ceiling. Much of the porch roof is burned, and smoke damaged the ceilings throughout the home.”
But hope lives: “The Bush family photos in the northwest bedroom were not damaged”
A youthful George W. Bush moved to Odessa Texas with his parents at age two in 1948. His short-lived encounter with the region lasted but a year, then the family enjoyed a brief sojourn in California. After tasting such delights as Bakersfield and Compton they returned to West Texas in 1950, but this time they settled in the comparative glamour of Midland.
All this too and fro, and what can only be called rootlessness has left multiple Former Bush Homes scattered over the landscape. The family had three addresses in Odessa, then three in Midland before heading to Houston. When George W. Bush lived in Midland eleven years as an adult he had four more addresses.
The fire-damaged home is the only one remaining in Odessa, moved from it’s original location to the backyard of the covering-all-bettingly named “Presidential Museum and Leadership Library,” 
which bizarrely enough claims to have actually preexisted both Bush Presidencies.
Traditional Odessa rivals down the road in Midland have their own entry in the recreation race. Pledging that “The George W. Bush Childhood Home will be one of the Nation’s first 1950s residential restorations,” the George W. Bush Childhood Home Inc. has visions of raising $7 million to gussy up one of Bush’s Midland homes.
Seven Million Dollars, American
