Gambling Great Harry Truman
Poker News calls the roll of Presidential poker players: Grant, Harding, both Roosevelts, Truman, Eisenhower and Nixon. They are summoning up the ghosts of gaming past to defend….online gambling!
“It’s hard to imagine that a pastime that these men, arguably considered pillars of American history, could be condemned by so many just because there is an element of luck and gamble mixed in with the skill needed to be successful in the game.Perhaps America’s legislators should take a look at these presidents and the game of poker in America’s history before condemning the online gambling industry. If the game is good enough for presidents to play, it’s good enough for people to be playing online from the comfort of their own homes.”
Better press than usual for Warren Harding – moving on up!
Not yet in theatres [and for that matter this is the play’s poster]
Before the Frost/Nixon interviews turned play turned film publicity deluge descends upon us, Robert Stein pauses to remember David Frost 
as “the James Lipton of his day“:
“…imagine a tireless, disingenuous combination of Jon Stewart and Larry King with unlimited ambition and greed.
His counterpart, Nixon, ended in disgrace but Sir David Frost, a multimillionaire and now host on the Al Jazeera English Channel, is still with us, pimping his way through history.”
In his hour of need, Richard Nixon turned to the beacon of mankind, the friend of the oppressed. To the Soviet Union!
Yes, as he approached his darkest hour of resignation, only the land of real existing socialism, in the form of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, reached out to him.
Just released State Department documents show Breshnev’s message came through long time Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. He told Nixon:
“No doubt, there are some people — and not only in the United States — who anticipate that Richard Nixon won’t be able to take it and will crack under the pressure…But, we are pleased to note, you have no intention of giving them that satisfaction.”
Nixon quit despite the Bolshevik bucking up.
It was like old times for Representative Duncan Hunter at the Orlando Republican Presidential debate.
Specifically 1961. 
While most of the GOP candidates are content to bask in the warm glow of Ronald Reagan single-handedly toppling the Berlin Wall, Hunter has other roll back campaigns in mind. He’s going after Fidel! 
Or at least making the claim that Kennedy sold out the Bay of Pigs []Playa Giron] invasion, launching the lily-livered “Democrat” party of today.
A bold statement considering who held office 
when Castro came to power, and which administration cooked up the invasion. [The hearty endorsement of our death-squad allies in El Salvador is also refreshing]
“This is a historic venue.(APPLAUSE)
You know, 300 miles off this coast is a place where another party, once a great party, the Democrat Party, lost its identity. And that’s when, in 1961, the Cuban freedom fighters were struggling with a toehold on the beach, trying to take back Cuba from Castro and a Democrat president with an aircraft carrier sitting a few miles offshore said we will not help the freedom fighters.
And a thousand miles away from there is El Salvador, where a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, hung tough, brought freedom to El Salvador.
HUNTER: And you know something? Today, they are fighting side by side with our guys in Iraq.
(APPLAUSE)
We’re the party of freedom.”
Nifty Naftali
The impossible takes a little longer at the Nixon Library.
New Director Timothy Naftali is still winded and a little dusty from single handedly removing the old, bad, inaccurate Watergate exhibit 
at the Nixon Library, Museum, Birthplace and Grave.
But he found the strength to congratulate himself for booking Watergate Hero-Reporter Carl Bernstein, book touring with his Hillary Clinton biography:
“I was told when I got here it couldn’t be done“
The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register followed Bernstein around the grounds 
to the Nixon birthplace home 
, but if he paused at the the nearby grave it went unreported.
*Let’s review…
