Passed, Imperfect? 
The Ronald Reagan Centenary in 2011 looms, and Dixon Illinois is forming a commission to coordinate the celebration.
Where this leaves Tampico, the actual birthplace, is unclear. Reagan spent the bulk of his childhood in the Dixon. The town is bigger than Tampico and holds the Reagan “Boyhood Home.” It’s a house Reagan’s family rented for less than two years, yet the location of mawkish commemorations of the legend.
Brace yourself for a renewed Reagan Naming orgy as the anniversary approaches.
Courting and Counting 
Hanukkah! Festival of Lights! A special time for goy politicians of all persuasions to pause and suck up to the Great Jewish People.
Until recently, Richard Nixon had even been doing it from beyond. Each year the Nixon Library would mark Hanukkah, albeit often folded into it’s “Christmas Around the World” program. [Hanukkah, of course, is how Jews celebrate the birth of Our Lord.]
Not so this year. Did the cumulative evidence of Nixon’s Antisemitism do them in?
2007 provided the climax to date, with the release of Fred Malek‘s memos about counting “the other demographic criteria” [i.e., Jews] at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In 2005 it was all so different:
Hanukkah Celebration
Join family and friends at the Nixon Library on Sunday, December 11 for a special Hanukkah celebration. This free-admission event begins at 5:30 p.m. and features remarks from U.S. Congressman Gary Miller, the Lighting of the Menorah by Rabbi David Eliezrie and traditional music performed by the Temple Beth Tikvah junior choir, the Tarbut V’Torah choir, the Heritage Oak Singers, and Celebration USA.
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? 
Get Stuffed 
Someone doesn’t care for the idea of a new Teddy Roosevelt “presidential library”in Oyster Bay New York.
The National Park Service official overseeing Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill is not interested new competition:
“We already have a TR museum at Sagamore Hill. … you wouldn’t want to confuse visitors that to go to a downtown museum is visiting Sagamore Hill…In Washington, D.C. there is only one monument to TR. That is Roosevelt Island on the Potomac River… It seems to me that a museum in Washington where there are multiple millions of visitors, would be more appropriate…There are many other places that could use a place to learn and celebrate TR. He is so instrumental in starting the National Park Service – let’s put it someplace where people can visit him…I wouldn’t want to make a lot of changes in Oyster Bay…The whole idea of Presidential Libraries started with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. TR was ahead of his times, but his papers have been preserved and protected and are available to the public at Harvard and the Library of Congress..”
Deputy Regional Director of the North Eastern Region of the National Park Service Chrysandra Walter
