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Family Ties

The Nixon family has long enjoyed a special relationship with African Americans.

And now a Nixon daughter endorses Obama!

The Nixon Library Feud continued by other means!

Magic Never To Be Repeated

The Jenna Bush Crawford wedding buildup sheds light on a puzzling past White House wedding.

The Associated Press consults Katherine Jellison, history prof and author of “It’s Our Day,” who points out how Iraq keeps the Bush family from going all out:

“This is going to be such a different kind of situation from Tricia Nixon’s wedding …The frivolity of a big White House wedding in the middle of an unpopular war would have used up what little political capital he has.”

Vietnam, anybody?

Richard Nixon’s Not-Quite-Presidential-Enough Library has long since surrendered to the National Archives. The Nixon’s standalone “we don’t really need his presidential papers” stance collapsed a year ago July when they finally entered the federal government’s warm embrace.

Now they need space for actual documents, you know, like a library! But fear not. As they have so many times, the feds are bailing Nixon out with cash for a new wing!

The Library’s complicated real estate, which a recent visitor says has the National Archives controlling part of the complex and the Nixon Foundation[the leftover of the bad old days] controlling the rest, can only get screwier.

Masked Man Meets Enigma

Is Nixon selling him stamps?

They may not answer that question, but the Los Angeles Autry National Center is opening a what appears to be a thorough survey of Presidential Cowboy mythology.

It’s all fun, although while providing a role model for John McCain, Theodore Roosevelt seems to carry the dress-up further than seems healthy.

The New Nixon blog is a last holdout for Nixon loyalists, the brave band who followed him into exile and the world of deferential memorializing.

Frank Gannon is of this band of brothers [Diane Sawyer and Monica Crowley having gone to glory elsewhere], and in the New Nixon Gannon displays once more the epic tone deafness of Nixon and his minions.

Gannon’s post on Politico‘s “50 Greatest Political Moments“starts off making minor harrumphs over Nixon resignation details [at the time of His choosing!], then closes quoting approvingly from Politico‘s tear-stained account of Nixon’s last conversation with his 1968 rival.

On Christmas Day 1977 Hubert”He Showed Us How To Die” Humphrey was literally dying. He called Nixon and they chatted about their pasts. Humphrey assumed Nixon would be spending the holiday with his daughters, but Nixon choked up, confessing that he and Pat were alone.

The story tells us not much on Humphrey, but a great deal about Nixon’s pathalogical inability to feel any emotion but self-pity.