Happy Days Ahead! 
Nancy Reagan speaks to Vanity Fair‘s beloved Reagan conduit Bob Colacello, and we learn she communes with the deceased former chief executive.
“I see Ronnie. At nighttime, if I wake up, I think Ronnie’s there, and I start to talk to him. It’s not important what I say. But the fact is, I do think he’s there. And I see him.“
But these apparitions are apparently but a foretaste of the glorious communion to come, when Nancy and Ronnie are somehow reunited in death.
‘Cause Billy Graham told her it was so!
“I said to him, ‘Just tell me if I’m going to be with Ronnie again. Just tell me that and I’ll be O.K.’ He said, ‘You are.’ And I said, ‘O.K.“
No word on if the aged evangelist’s thinks Nixon or the Jews will be coming along.
To A Higher, Better Place  
Richard Nixon: His Shameful New Roll 
Remember when Barack Obama shocked America, demeaning his high office-to-be by producing a President-Elect logo 
which traduced the sacred presidential seal?
The feigned outrage was briefly energetic, and then the circus moved on.
Let’s all brace ourselves for new outbursts, as the Nixon Library Foundation has found an exciting new use for the emblem.
Anthony Clark’s dogged explorations of presidential libraries’ seamy underbellies are documented on his prezlibs blog. Clark reports the Nixon Library Foundation announced White House seal toilet paper, then apparently thought better of it.
” I’d love to link directly to it, but sometime in the last five days the product was removed from the Nixon Foundation’s web site. Here is where the item in question used to appear on the Nixon Library online store. You’ll notice that the main product area is blank.“
We Choose To Sell Out       
Further East, even in whoring for commerce the Kennedy Library as always out-swanks Nixon, signing up the late president to flog watches.
It Hurts Too Much To Cry   
Nixon Library gets joke, sells it.
Seeing what the kids are up to, the Nixon Library Foundation has introduced snappy new gear for youthful Nixon fans, and those broadly engaged in irony.    Â
Their commercial predecessors are a little more creative on the appropriation of images front however.  
Slacker! Â
The always in the know Mike Allen reports former President George W. Bush has settled on a format for his upcoming memoirs. Allen reports that:
“…his book will revolve around 12 tough decisions he made as president. Planners for his presidential library in Dallas are considering a similar format.”
Making Richard Nixon’s Six Crises look like nothin!
Bush spoke in Canada, giving us a little taste of the torture apologetics to come:
“I want people to understand what it was like to sit in the Oval Office and have them come in and say, ‘We have captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’ — this mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the alleged killer of a guy named Danny Pearl [who died] because he was simply Jewish — ‘and we think he has information on further attacks on the United States.’ I want to draw people in to that environment and let them determine what they would have done if their most important job was to protect the country.â€
In the same appearance Bush claimed he’d be quiet about the Obama administration, but apparently “drawing comparisons” does not count as criticism.
Code Of Silence Â
An Obama nominee’s shocking mockery of Ronald Reagan may torpedo his nomination. Dennis Hayes is up for deputy secretary of Interior, but soldier of the Reagan Revolution John McCain claims to take great offense at some five year old musings 
 somehow tying Reagan to cowboy mythology.
Hayes wrote of the legendary man of the west,
“a rugged, gun-toting individualist who fiercely guards every man’s right to drill, mine, log, or do whatever he damn well pleases on the land…Like Ronald Reagan before him, President Bush has embraced the Western stereotype to the point of adopting some of its affectations—the boots, brush-clearing, and get-the-government-off-our-backs bravado.â€
That’s it, end of mockery.
McCain pronounced himself unhappy, as well he should, being a product of the DC suburbs parachuted into the wilds of Arizona with only native guile and his wife’s money to support him.
For christ’s sake, Hayes is a chemical and utility lobbyist.
