Watch It! 
From the first, the stakes could not have been higher:
“Because Mrs. Clinton seeks our nation’s highest office and may well be the next President of the United States, the public interest weighs heavily in favor of enjoining the Library from continuing to withhold the records at issue.â€
And so the judicial activists of Judicial Watch launched their quest, only the latest chapter in their decades long quest to prove something somehow on the Clintons.
But they were late to the party.
Judicial Watch’s document request to the National Archives’ Clinton Presidential Library came after many others, and 
dwarfed any request for presidential papers, ever.
The Watchers sought to focus on the UFO requester in line before them, but now a federal judge has ruled that rushing Judicial Watch’s request out of the archives would hurt the people in front of them.
“Judicial Watch must abide by the kindergarten commandment to wait one’s turn,” U.S. District Judge James Robertson said.”
THRILLING NEWS! 
Somehow Presidential Libraries have joined Nigerian Princesses as a spam generative-worthy category. One blogger reports a Mrs. Oswald soliciting funds in her capacity as “Presidential Library & Museum Former Director International Online Lottery Co-coordinator.”
We have arrived!
Would That It Were So 
George W. Bush’s pet National Archivist Allen Weinstein brought a message of hope to the dreamed of future home of Bush’s Presidential Library , and offered proof of just how differential to power he is.
Weinstein assured the Southern Methodist University commencement crowd that the Bush Library will gussy up SMU’s image, 
even the Fantastic Freedom Institute., once that darn popularity gets turned around.
“Even most opponents of the proposed independent Bush Policy Institute acknowledge that a popular, well-run presidential library center will redound to the benefit of SMU.“
The man who has watched the Bush administration lose millions of presidential documents with no apparent response is unsurprisingly calm about the prospect that Bush will bury his past in the vaults.
The secret is showing your sensitive side.
Weinstein claims that Lyndon Johnson’s image is on the upswing because the Johnson Library released tapes of him agonizing over Vietnam.
“This is the kind of gamble other presidential families will be more likely to try now, and perhaps be less fearful about.”
But thanks to Richard Nixon this isn’t supposed to a decision by “presidential families.” The documents belong to the public, and the families would have no role if the courts or Congress overturned George W. Bush’s executive order letting ex presidents and their children after them hide papers.
Sitting Pretty? 
The Bush Library opposition is betting on delegates to a local Methodist church conference overturning Southern Methodist University’s deal with the President.
But they may be betting on a weak horse. So far opponents lack even a single delegate to stand with them suing Methodist Bishops over conference rules.
“Our legal team tells us that we need to go to court to give us the best chance to protect the property rights and voting rights of the 290 Jurisdictional Conference delegates who are the elected representatives of the property owners, i.e., the 1.83 million UMC members of the South Central Jurisdiction (SCJ). To do so we need at least one delegate who is willing to step forward and be the plaintiff in the case. We have not found such a delegate.”
Opponents have been canvassing delegates, but the opposition seems soft at best:
“We need 146 votes to win. If we can educate the delegates about the dangers of the Bush partisan think thank to the academic integrity of SMU and the good name of our church, we can win the vote…The majority of the delegates feel they can live with the library, even with its current limitation — censorship by the president and his heirs in perpetuity through his Executive Order 13233, signed soon after 9/11. What many delegates are disturbed by and will vote against is the partisan think-tank to honor George Bush, which is being organized by Karl Rove. Neither SMU nor the United Methodist Church will have any control over the direction of the partisan institute, and that deeply troubles many. If given an opportunity by the SCJ bishops to vote, there is a good chance that the delegates will reject the partisan institute.”
For Some It Never Ends 
Grand Rapids continues to salute former President Gerry Ford, despite the indifference of the Ford family.
No family members plan to attend the premier of a Ford musical tribute, “One of Us, Portrait of a Humble Healer.” This latest slap to local pride comes Friday when the Grand Rapids Symphony premiers the work, accompanied by David “The Tom DeFrank of Pictures” Kennerly’s photographs.
No one from the immediate family attended the 2007 dedication of Gerald R. Ford Middle School.
Longtime local Ford memorialist Marty Allen says the Ford’s desperately await the music’s CD release. Next Fall.
“I know the family wants it done, because they can’t be here,” Allen told the Grand Rapids Press. “And they’re anxious to hear it.”
Allen is Chairman Emeritus of the Library, and cementing his place in history as Ford family stand in. The Ford Library even holds a painting commemorating the historic day when he received the flag 
which had flown at half staff to mark Ford’s death.
