Nixon ’08 
All I know about Richard Nixon’s exile comes from stories and pictures of the demolition of his Saddle River New Jersey house.
From that slim base of knowledge, I have to say that the photo released flogging the upcoming “Frost/Nixon” film does seem to capture the crummy dreariness of Nixon’s home, before the mold.
And Nixon wasn’t even living there when he taped the interviews.
The odd shaped rooms, 
the pointlessly complicated lighting fixtures. 
Complicating the film’s promotion for the expected 2008 release may be this site. Wait till the Nixon and Frost profiles appear and hit “click here to watch.” Enjoy the show!
Return to Yesteryear 
Freed from the burdens of Front Runnership, John McCain has the time to let his mind run free, dreaming of his likely never-to-be Presidency.
Engaging in the one-on-one interaction so prized by New Hampshire voters, Mccain gave a tour of his most admired Presidents.
The Boston Globe managed to feign surprise that Harry Truman made the list. And not for the glories of the early Cold War, firing MacArthur or integrating the Army.
McCain’s Truman fixation was on the little man strolling about with a single bodyguard.
“”He could walk out of the White House and take a walk with one Secret Service agent. One Secret Service agent!…My, how times have changed.””
Indeed. In 1951.
Truman’s temporary home at Blair House was attacked by Puerto Rican Nationalists. A policeman and one of the Nationalists died. 
Congress responded by formalizing the Secret Service’s protective role, and enumerating who would be covered.
Plain Spoken, Flame Broiled 
Harry Truman’s real estate/memorial empire continues to blossom, despite his death 35 years ago, adding properties he couldn’t possibly remember and some he’d probably just as soon forget.
The House has passed a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to consider adding the Harry Truman Birthplace 
to the National Park Service. Mr. Feisty spent his formative first eleven months in the home, which has been a state park since 1959 when the United Auto Workers gave it to Missouri. The site closed due to unspecified “hazardous conditions” shortly after the House vote.
The Independence Missouri house Truman lived in before and after his presidency 
was acquired by the Park Service in the 1980s. Since then they have gobbled up two Truman in-law houses around the 
corner, and acquired a neighboring house at 216 North Delaware. 
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The NPS bought into trouble with these homes and two of them are getting new foundations.
The Park Service does own the Truman farm 
near town where young Harry slaved for his father until World War I saved him, but the “boyhood home” at 909 West Waldo in Independence 
remains in private hands.
The Truman Historic Site sits in an historic district named for him, and in theory there’s nothing to stop the Park Service from buying them everything in sight.
He’d have appreciated the flag on the dumpster
New Jersey’s The Record provides blow by blow Nixon demolition pictures, as the Sage of Saddle River’s “rustic prize” of a wreck of a house went down.
Richard Nixon’s home for the 1980s was knocked down Wednesday.
The long heralded demolition of Richard Nixon’s Saddle River New Jersey home has finally commenced. Nixon lived in the home from 1981 to 91 following his resignation.
The Rot Within 
