Shady Stats 
New York Sun prison correspondent Conrad Black writes from sunny Florida that the Nixonland hype must stop, claiming author Rick Perlstein somehow missed the hidden wells of Nixon popularity both past and present.
“Mr. Perlstein does recognize that Nixon was and is popular, though he doesn’t know how popular and can’t explain why.”
“Was” can be demonstrated, as this Wall Street Journal graphic shows:
“Is” appears more problematic, despite the frenzied efforts of smooth backed Roger Stone. 
Dance Fever 
He messes up the alleged setting for Richard Nixon’s jocular query if his conversation partner had “done any fornicating over the weekend,” but
“As difficult or unsettling as it might be to imagine, before Richard Nixon became U.S. president, he came here with his wife, Patricia, and led a congalike line between tables while warbling the refrain, “Severa … Severa … Severa.”
The club’s website is mute on this question.
Severa Silence 
When did this storied affair take place? One account has private citizen Nixon in Lisbon in 1963, winning future friends. Nixon cheered Portugal’s efforts to maintain white rule in Africa, a small preview of the Republican love affair with South Africa reluctantly ended when Apartheid did.
Up Where We Belong 
Gerald Ford’s former Colorado home is for sale, and the frenzy is unrestrained!
“To our knowledge, it has been generations since the home of a former President has been offered to the open marketplace…and this is the only one in history to have such a prized location.“
Well.
Ford’s own home in Alexandria Virginia has languished on the market lately. To our knowledge there have recently been two Nixons and a Kennedy sold, a Harding changed hands in 2004, a Reagan in 2000, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s former home is for rent.
No word if the Colorado Ford property includes his home x-ray machine.
Role Model 
Richard Nixon continues to inspire, even from beyond.
Gay American Jim McGreevey’s resignation as New Jersey’s Governor prompted speculation he’d rise Nixon-like from the political grave, or not.
Now former New Jersey resident Nixon has returned to McGreevey’s life, but not in the good way. McGreevey’s embroiled in divorce proceedings with his wife, and claims his circumstances render him practically unemployable.
The wife’s lawyer John Post says McGreevey needs to buckle down and do a Nixon.
“Post dismissed the argument that McGreevey is unable to find work, saying even Richard Nixon wrote books and made money on the lecture circuit after resigning the presidency under the glare of impeachment.
“The notion that there is some notoriety or disgrace that can’t be overcome if the person wants to do it is another flaw in [McGreevey’s] analysis,” Post said.”
Still The One 
Dick Cheney speaks for all of chattering America in promoting the glories of our least elected President, Gerald Ford.
His decency? Essential!
“One of the toughest decisions was also one of the earliest –– when he announced the pardon of Richard Nixon. For that he was attacked from every conceivable angle. His judgment, his timing, his intelligence, his motives, his personal integrity –– all of these were called into question. His public approval rating sank dramatically. But the President had made his decision carefully, and he had put the interest of the country first. He kept his head about him, even when it seemed that many others in Washington were losing theirs and blaming it on him.”
One former Ford official ain’t buying it. Jerald terHorst was press secretary to President Ford, and quit a month into Ford’s administration over the Nixon pardon. Reporters have looked him up in the wake of the Scott McClellan story, and terHorst is sticking to his stand.
“I think no man is above the law. You need to make a stand. That’s what citizenship is, in my book.”
