Ever Onward To Victory!
The world continues to digest the new Nixon releases put out by the National Archives to celebrate the Nixon Library coming into the fold.
One time Archives Nixon tape archivist Maarja Krusten points out it ain’t over yet. She says the Nixon family has and likely will continue to engage in murky negotiations over what to release and when, with the Archives adding it’s own mysteries to the project.
And she invites us all to PLAY NIXON ARCHIVIST!
Extra bonus attraction: she provides a link to the Memory Hole’s catch of an IG report on how John Roberts affirmative action files went missing from the Reagan Library as Bush aides reviewed them for his confirmation battle. No docs in socks tales [denied] as in the Sandy Berger case but fun in it’s own way.
Lieberman: Bush Has Joementum!
Senator Joseph Lieberman was speaking to talk radio host and former Nixon museum head Hugh Hewitt. The Senator assured Hewitt that the trials of the present will fade once that long term glory kicks in.
Everything’s Coming Up Nixon!
The Washington Post reports[2nd item] that Richard Nixon’s former DC home at 4308 Forest Lane in “fashionable Wesley Heights” has sold for $4.5 million.
The Nixon’s lived there for his second term as Vice President, selling up and leaving town after the 1960 election loss.
There’s been renovation, but don’t worry, “Pat Nixon’s fruitwood cabinetry is intact“!
Jerry Ford is also seeing action in deceased Presidential real estate circles. The Denver Post reports the ominous signs of a possible house museum taking shape in the Colorado mountains.
California real estate developer Kevin Hayes bought the Ford’s Colorado property in December, “signing the contract hours before the 38th president died.” He says “It’ll always be the Gerald Ford home.” But it isn’t the Vail property you may recall from blurry seventies video from Ford’s presidency. The new property was bought by our most athletic President after the loss to Carter.
Hayes threatens to live there with various oddities he purchased at last weekend’s Ford-a-rama auction…
…including the former Chief Executive’s personal X-ray machine.
Previous home radiological enthusiasts in the news have included deposed Hollywood strongman Michael Ovitz, but Ovitz was never credited with healing a nation.
It’s A Jubilee!
All debts forgiven, all slaves set free! The Nixon museum goes federal at 11 am EST today.
Watch for tales from the crypt as the archives releases new tapes and documents.
