Presidential Librarians:High Crimes

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Another Presidential Library head has been arrested for thievery, and now fired.

If convicted, the Abraham Lincoln Library’s Richard E. Beard may  join  former Theodore Roosevelt Association director Edward Renehan in prison.

What might Beard go up the river for? Shoplifting DVDs of House and Seinfeld .

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Presidential Libraries seem to attract their own criminal class, so lets get busy.

Another bust and we have a trend!

Margaret Truman: The Ghost Who Types

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America’s most prolific dead presidential offspring/author has struck again.  Margaret Truman, Harry’s daughter, has checked in again with yet another Washington “mystery.”  Murder Inside The Beltway is perhaps the most insipidly titled of her, shall we say uninspired crap novels.

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Miss Truman “authored” a string of ’em before her January death.  She’s entombed with her parents and husband at the Truman Library.

Eisenhower: The Trouble With Kansas

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The Kansas City Star’s Brian Burnes is digging deep in the Eisenhower archives, and oh the treasures he’s found.

little-rock-norman-rockwell.jpg  The Kansas native who reluctantly sent federal troops to integrate Little Rock schools is held up as a civil rights pioneer. The evidence:  Ike wrote letters, and location, location,location!

1. Eisenhower stormed the margins of polite opinion.

“Correspondence also indicated that Eisenhower wrote to Billy Graham and asked him to provide feedback about current and future race relations.”

And who better than Billy “Stranglehold” Graham to discuss prejudice?

2. As a child, Eisenhower was, once, sometime, somewhere near “minorities” of unknown derivation.

“A picture of Eisenhower from his 1909 graduating class shows two minorities, which Burnes said is an indication that Ike, even at an early age, did seem to have a feeling about other races.”

Feeling is healing!

The Clinton School: Stay Classy!

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 Albright Alright with Jerry?

“America’s Newest Presidential School” continues to draw the odd and the available to Little Rock.

The latest Clinton School catch:

beloved former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer!  springer-hookers-for-hire.JPG

Yes, Jerry brings his concerned look to America’s future rulers, joining the long line of greats.

Ayers & Omissions

Who Is This Fancy Walter Annenberg?  annenberg-hat.JPG

…and why did he pay for Chicago Reds like Barack Obama and William “Billy” Ayers to run wild?

The McCain campaign is super excited at all the play it is getting on Barack Obama’s  chicago-riot.JPG  Red Ruffian friends, to the point where it isn’t even trying to make sense.

McCain’s breathless release headlines, “The Obama Campaign Claims Not To Know Details Of Ayers’ Relationship”

…before serving up heaping helpings of Fox News excerpts, with no real effort to explain their time, date or place, much less that of the events they pretend to discuss.

Then, deeper and deeper into the mysteries of “Annenberg.”

  

 

“And this was directly funded by Annenberg?”

Kurtz: “Oh, yes.”

Griffin: “Under Obama’s chairmanship?”

Kurtz: “Oh yes

Who is this sinister Annenberg? Mob scion, ambassador,  reagan-annenberg.jpg    dead friend of Presidents, before he died  Walter Annenberg sought respectability by dumping much of his fortune into multiple foundations, one of which engaged Obama and Ayers.

Who is this Kurtz?   kurz.JPG The “conservative  scholar” hangs his hat at the famed Ethics & Public Policy Center, the former home of Eliot “Mr. Kenilworth” Abrams. Kurtz has grown into his role as relentless Ayers pursuer, leaving behind his youthful flirtations with big think on terrorism and a prolonged period as  “the ‘EverReady Bunny’ of the same-sex marriage debate