Remembering history the way they wished it had been
 Brave Front  
Former President George W. Bush tells the Dallas Morning News that Bush Library donors want to remain secret. But he generously invites the paper to ask these unknown soldiers of the Bush Revolution how come.
If they can be found out. The ex president refuses to look into their hearts, but invites the paper to take a leap:
Congress may force the issue. A Bill passed the House last session to force donor disclosure, and the Senate may act on it soon
 Behind Every Great’s Library Is A Crime? 
George W. Bush’s possible testimony in a land dispute over the future “Bush Center” at Southern Methodist University has the guys suing SMU giddy with excitement. Their lawsuit claims condo owners were ripped off by SMU because word of the Bush Presidential Library’s coming was withheld. The former condo owners have gotten a Dallas judge to order the ex president’s testimony on a 2002 meeting where the prospective library began to take shape.
Bush’s lawyers say they will appeal, and SMU says there is nothing to see here. But plaintiff Gary Vodicka told the Texas lawyer blog that vagueness and memory loss by former White House counsel and failed Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers persuaded the judge that only Bush can bring light onto the darkness.
Larry Friedman represents another party to the suit, and he hears History’ footsteps, destiny’s drumbeat, or something.
SMU’s president thought the Bush Library would somehow expunge the stain of Kennedy’s assassination from Dallas. But Friedman says the suit is huge, that the judge’s order is..
“the most important historic event in Dallas since the JFK assassination.“
Stain Removal ResistantÂ
Others Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them 
The Washington Post looks eagerly ahead to the Frank Gehry’s one hundred million dollar Eisenhower memorial plaza, although somewhat concerned the task is not monumental enough for Frank:
But the Post is fully with the program, swallowing the plaza’s rationale whole.
Where to start?
I believe the Soviets played a role in Hitler’s demise.
The Interstates devastated cities and fueled generations of white flight.
Health, Education & Welfare:Â what exactly did Ike do for any of the three?
All we got out of the ’57 Civil Rights Act was a commission, a job at the DOJ, and voting rights language so inadequate the real heavy lifting came with Lyndon Johnson’s Voting Rights Act.
Ike’s views are best summed up in his desegregation complaint to Earl Warren:
Ike-Like? 
As the nation struggles to comprehend the prospect of George W. Bush’s Wal-Mart Super Center sized “Presidential Library,” perhaps the last of its kind, a new front opens in America’s epic struggle to spend millions memorializing old pharaohs.
An Eisenhower memorial plaza in Washington DC is expected to cost $90 to $120 million!
It’s to be located across from the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, commemorating the President the Russians beat into space. 
Bush’s father’s Library only cost $83 million, and it has walls and the beloved dancing palominos. 
The Ike plaza to be designed by quirky starchitect Frank Geary, whose famed misshapen blobs scar landscapes worldwide.
It’s not like Washington is starved for Eisenhower-named things. He already has the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center, and the vast Executive Office Building is named for him.
Insufficiently Ike-ish? 
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Closing Time? Â 
Sad news as America recovers from another St. Patrick’s Day.
The Alexandria Virginia pub where Ronald Reagan lifted a beer glass [unclear if he drank any of it] is for sale. The visit launched a thousand “who would you rather have a beer with” presidential polls, climaxing with teetotaler George W. Bush’s win. 
