CSI Odessa

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Sleepless In Midland” gets all crime scene investigatory on the Bush home arson.

The blogger seems to believe they found the source of the crime:

bush-fire-vshape.jpg “V” for Victory?

“…notice the “V” shape of the fire damage on the wall to the left of the front door suggesting that the heat spread upward from a point on the porch. And you can also see a charred spot on the cement porch that could be the spot where the fire investigators thought the fire originated. So one possible assumption is that an accelerant was poured on the cement porch and set ablaze. But a chemical analysis would be necessary to confirm that.”

Even as a long time fan of blurry grassy knoll action kennedy-playing-with-mooreman.jpg I have to confess I don’t see it.

For the Bush arson completist, the blog does provide a thoughtful link to the town’s press release regarding the fire.

Other Citizen-Journalists share their views.

In other Presidential Hot Spots, the Richard M. Nixon Recreational Center in Hyden Kentucky has had a boiler room fire. nixon-rec-center.jpg

The Rec Center’s 1978 dedication was the scene of one of Nixon’s first public outings nixon-hyden-ky-rec-center-dedication.jpg after his resignation, visiting the federal fund-loving mountain Republicans of the obscure hamlet.

Reaching Today’s Youth

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From the Journal of vikisu202:

 

“the last few days have been essentially uneventful

monday: I went to the Richard Nixon Library with Neel, oliver, and michael. Michael was making completely inappropriate sexual jokes as usual. We only went for the extra credit for gov. Ironically, the only exhibit we wanted to see was watergate and it was “under construction”. It was one of the most boring museums ive ever been to. There were a billion random christmas trees everwhere though. At night, we went to austins house and ate a lot of food. We watched some tennis and hannah montana. then onto 2008!”

Richard Nixon’s Path of Destruction Halted?

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Spawning Ground of Jerry Voorhis’ Defeat?

His final place of exile nixon-saddle-river-demo-tractor.jpg in New Jersey is destroyed, the Key Biscayne nixon-key-biscayne.jpg “Florida White House” torn down, but a little piece of Richard Nixon still stands near Baltimore.

A building containing the apartment once rented by Lieutenant Richard Nixon in 1946 in being considered for landmark status.

After Market

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My recollections of the Kennedy Library are that it’s about average for the category – Oval Office repo, press conference excerpts where he knocks ’em out of the park. But this ad campaign is pretty fabulous.

And half a century later, Nixon still can’t compete.

“Situated in southern California just 15 minutes from Disneyland, the Nixon Library is a dramatic roller coaster ride through half a century of California, U.S. and world history!”

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Now More Than Ever

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His campaign’s revival has clearly made John McCain giddy. Among the celebrities he’s dragged around Iowa is a real ghost of Christmas past, Tricia Nixon Cox. nixon-tricia-mccain.jpg

Yes, Richard Nixon’s eldest daughter. nixon-tricia-wedding.jpg

It’s hard to tell what constituency Cox is meant to appeal to. Nixon bitter-enders have got to be a shrinking number, and Tricia never had much profile beyond her father. Youthquake Ambassador? nixon-tricia-nixon-and-the-turtles.png

Nixon was so far down that even wholesome hacks like jay-the-americans.jpg Jay & the Americans felt empowered to record an impossibly lame anti-war song called Tricia [Tell Your Daddy]. Tragically the only version on line is by the song’s Canadian writer. nixon-tricia-tell-your-daddy.JPG

Cox kept a fairly low profile after her “storybook”Rose Garden wedding nixon-tricias-wedding-poster.jpg to Mr. Cox and her father’s exile.

nixon-tricia-25th-anniversary-nixon-library.jpg She participated in a 25th wedding anniversary event at the Nixon Library in 1996, one of the Presidential Paper-less entity’s diverse efforts to fill the seats. nixon-choose-the-nixon-library.jpg Tricia surfaced in 2002 to make nice with sister Julie, ending a dispute over Nixon entourage member Bebe Rebozo’s $20 million gift to the Nixon Library. bebe-rebozo.JPG