Memories Are Made Of This   
First in peace, first in war, and first to build a gigundous museum for himself.  Franklyn Roosevelt’s great initiative to make history the way he liked it spawned our  glorious  presidential library industry, but what about the poor slobs before him?
Herbert Hoover built the first post-FDR prequel library, and we’ve […]

Priced [Not] To Move   
Gerald Ford property speculator Kevin Hayes appears to be one of the silent victims of America’s unfolding banking tragedy,  as Wall Street’s giant sucking sound diminishes the supply of marks willing to pay $15 million so they may walk the pool tiles where Gerry trod.
Hayes has been trying to unload […]

All The People, All The Time 
The US Mint clambers aboard the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial with an offering of four exciting new designs to replace that tired old Lincoln Memorial.
Most problematic is the salute to Lincoln’s Kentucky birthplace, whose centerpiece is a cabin sometimes billed as the place of Lincoln’s birth.        The National […]

   Airstrip One 
The votes are in, and the winner of  New York’s  Storefront For Art & Architecture White House makeover contest have been loosed on an anxious world.
And First Prize goes to …Number 834!
  “Revenge of the Lawn” seems to have something to do with cars,  cicadas,  and helicopters, but I invite your interpretation.  […]

A Very Special Agent
The Washington Post reports new material on Gerry Ford’s proud past as one of our FBI Informant/Presidents.
Ford’s leaking on the Warren Commission to troglodytious J.Edgar Hoover has surfaced before, but the Post FOIA’d Ford’s FBI file, and has new detail.
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