One Nation, Duel Exhaust   
American’s strange compulsion to man-up presidents by linking them to motorcycles opens an exciting new chapter in Springfield, where somehow it was felt appropriate to display an Abraham Lincoln Harley Davidson.
This year has already seen the now sadly closed Art of The Chopper exhibit at the Clinton Library.
George W. Bush posed on a motorcycle for 
 the 2004 campaign,
for the traditional 
Harley factory tour,
and in Indonesia for some reason. 
Bush invited the Rolling Thunder cavalcade to the 
 White House and proudly donned the leather vest, joining their crusade to save America’s somehow still missing POWs through, um, riding motorcycles. 
But don’t worry, it’s not all choppers and babes.
Lest we lose this potential presidential teaching moment, the 2004 Bush bike features the Preamble to the Constitution on the tank, and the Lincoln bike features “replica shackles ‘representing the issue of slavery’).”
What We’re Made Of  
Ronald Reagan’s birthday is Friday, and it would appear America’s love affair with the leathery matinee idol can only be sated by fawning tome 
after fawning tome 
 on the cooing conservative.
   But the only Reagan book you really need this year is Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth.  The Philadelphia blogger has become a national treasure simply by resurrecting Reagan Library Executive Director Duke Blackwood’s explanation that the restless spirits of the age led to the Reagan Library having no Iran-Contra material on display:
“We’ve had it in. We’ve done many of the renovations and it was addressed. It’s out now and, at some point in time, we hope to bring it back. But again, that’s the fluidity of a museum. You can’t have the same thing, you know, for ten, fifteen, twenty years. You need to refresh.“
Make Way For Tomorrow: Duke & Friends Fill Space 
Please Send Checks 
From Ronald Reagan’s Favorite Newspaper comes word of posthumous woes for the real estate legacy of the man he almost beat in 1976, Gerry Ford.
 Human Events reports that Ford’s former Arlington Virginia home, dead in the market since at least 2006, has had it’s sale price chopped again, to $800,000.
 And the economic meltdown haunts another storied Ford property, his Colorado ski home. Strenuous efforts to spread presidential pixie dust have come to naught. They’ve now knocked $2 million off the price, bringing it down to a low, low $13 million.
Where it lingers still.
Calling All Cars 
Yet another former Ronald Reagan vehicle has been surfaced, adding to the ever-growing fleet somehow associated with Reagan’s Santa Barbara area ranch.
Reagan’s Rancho Del Cielo was the Crawford of its day, a late in life purchase allowing much manly brush clearing while in office, but with nicer weather.
At least three jeeps claim some ranch provenance, and now a ghastly Subaru Brat Reagan once owned  
has been lovingly restored to its former hideous condition. 
Won’t You Be Mine? 
No product moving opportunity is missed by the Nixon Library Foundation, whose latest email invites us to associate Richard Nixon and romance, with the sparkling addition of the right’s scariest harridan.
Love Hurts   
