Laying It On With A Trowel 
Our glorious tradition of Presidential Libraries was of course launched by Franklin Roosevelt, who famously parked the first  one in his yard, and had himself buried there to complete the pharaoh-fication.
 
The special localness of these little bits o’ greatness scattered over the landscape are celebrated by America’s leading purveyor […]

The Hard Shell 
The New Yorker reports the latest on the effort to flog Laura “The Nice One” Bush’s tell-some memoirs, which has involved a series of publishing greats trekking to the White House to meet the Fightin’ Librarian before they sign up.
One publisher says it isn’t going well.

“I considered it the worst, or the […]

Pearls Without Price  
While the Bush Legacy Project floats fanciful interpretations of the Administrations history as the days draw nigh,  in Dallas they are dropping some of the masks.
Recall all that Dallas economic development the George W. Bush Library was to “spark” [when it wasn’t erasing the immortal stain of the Kennedy assassination] in its […]

Exit Laughing    
The hour approaches, when George W. Bush turns into a pumpkin and all his presidential papers are supposed to be whisked to the National Archives.
The New York Times reports much whistling past the graveyard by Archives.
Despite a Bush record of non-cooperation with the Archives, fifty times the Clinton Administration’s electronic document volume,  […]

Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot…