Looking For A Few Good Men
Every day is Christmas as Rick Perlstein travels our great nation flogging Nixonland. His new tellings of old anecdotes unfold amidst his amazement at people’s lack of knowledge about Richard Nixon’s sordid roots.
Newest example: Perlstein being asked again and again about king of all media and 1968 Nixon advisor Roger Ailes.
The rotund operative on what he looked for when stacking a Nixon “town meetingâ€:
“A good, mean, Wallaceite cab-driver. Wouldn’t that be great? Some guy to sit there and say, ‘Awright, Mac, what about these niggers?… Ailes walked up and down a nearby taxi stand until he found a cabbie who fit the bill.
That’s the creep who runs America’s vaunted “fair and balanced†network.â€
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Our Gang 
The last member of one of the first bank robbery gangs to use Nixon masks has finally been caught.
Eighty-Four year old Carmine Jannece and colleagues robbed a Michigan bank 17 years ago, shortly after release of the film “Pointbreak” . The movie featured a gang wearing presidential masks, and spawned a wave of copycat First Robbers which has yet to stop.
Also Halloween costumes, and T-Shirts. 
All Seeing 
It’s always great to hear from beloved old war criminal Henry Kissinger, and he does not disappoint in the latest “Lunch With the FT.”
A glancing effort comparing his perspective on Iraq:
“If we withdraw from Iraq, the radical elements in all the neighbouring Arab countries will be greatly encouraged.â€
…leads to the triumphant return of the Domino Theory:
“the collapse in Vietnam was partly compensated for by the almost simultaneous and fortuitous disintegration of the Soviet Union.”
The 15 years he thus whisks away may seem but the twinkling of an eye to an elder statesman like Kissinger, but it also has the additional benefit of wiping out his post-Vietnam adventures supporting South Africa’s invasion of Angola and Indonesia’s of East Timor.
Kissinger clearly has something going on with the period, lying about it in his memoirs and as recently as
Gerald Ford’s funeral:
“He sparked the initiative to bring majority rule to southern Africa, a policy that was a major factor in ending colonialism there.”
Kissinger was so desperately blocking dominoes back then that he even pitched Frank Sinatra for help in Africa.
I Dream of Africa 
The Ghanaian army has ended our fun, denouncing independent presidential candidate Richard Nixon Tetteh as a fraud.
Tetteh claimed to be a former Warrant Officer, but the army says he was only a private, and under the name Samuel Nixon Tettey.
Jenna’s Big Day* 
Crawford’s festive wedding atmosphere will be even more lively this weekend, now that famed director Oliver Stone has confirmed what a mess his upcoming biopic of President Bush will be.
The First Family can party responsibly, knowing that it’s gonna be another Stone classic.
With all the epic events of Bush’s life in draw on, Stone pledges to scratch the surface.
“…we don’t really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we’ve been allowed to see on TV. This movie’s taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain.”
*simulation
