The Newest Nixon
The LA Times provides a scene setter for the Wednesday Nixon museum changeover from triumphantly biased to federally certified objectivity.
Incoming Director Timothy Naftali boldly signals his new broomness by describing the demolition of the old Watergate exhibit, to be replaced by one where you can interact your way to making your own cool conclusions on the whole darn mess. “It’ll be up to the visitor to decide,” he vows.
The day has come at last when Nixon may catch a break from the death of objective truth conservatives spend an inordinate amount of their time hunting down and denouncing.
Even better, Naftali is going all meta on the old dead exhibit. It’ll live on in format of the day digital photographs to be displaced on, yes, plasma screens. Sort of like when Disneyland made over Tommorrowland to be less about the future and more on the past’s view of the future.
Naftali. Tie-less, natch.
Dick Goes Legit?
All is forgiven Wednesday as the Nixon museum wakes up part of the National Archives system.
It’s been a twisted path. Congress seized his papers in the wake of Watergate to prevent their destruction. Nixon sued, and he and later his estate carried on the titanic struggle for control. In the end the Feds paid him for $18 million for papers generated while he and his minions were on the public payroll.
The Archives was accused of assisting Nixon efforts to block access to the papers. And the deal to transfer now Archive owned papers to a gussied up and federalized Nixon museum hasn’t been seamless. Two years ago the Nixonians killed a Vietnam War conference it was to host but it’s all better now! This year the Nixon posted an item referring to Democrats as “sleeper cells,” but it was all in a spirit of fun and won’t happen again!
To celebrate it’s federalization the Nixon will be releasing new tapes and documents at 11 am EST Wednesday.
Watch the skies!
Nixon: Taking A Stand At The Border
Building on the innovations which have given us the first rent-able-for-parties White House East Room reproduction and a salute to presidential helicopters, the Nixon museum is now apparently hosting political rallies.
But not your polite presidential candidate on tour offering homage to the sage of Yorba Linda. This was more of an California classic, Tom Tancredo and white ragers rallying against illegals and defending Western Civilization’s ramparts, or at least those portions which touch down in the OC.
Presidential Greatness: People’s Choice Edition
Say what you will, Bush at his weakest hasn’t bottomed out quite so low as a sweaty war criminal tax cheat and the cardigan crazed man who lowered our thermometers.
Nixon and Carter still beat out Bush in Presidential Unlovedness.
Retire to the “ranch,” crank out the books and the path to redemption is clear.
Once More Into The Vaults!
Late notice on still more detail of the decades of Nixon attorney wheedling and whining to keep the Watergate tapes under wraps. A former National Archives staffer gives still more reasons not to trust Tricky Dick, then, now and forever.
