Remembering history the way they wished it had been
You Don’t Say 
Just as they were getting all contemporary with a blog, comes word that the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum’s hours will be cut back.
The Library is housed in the Northampton Massachusetts public library, which is making general cutbacks.
Moon Over College Station 
“…too many citizens these days are becoming disengaged at a time when we need more involvement, more debate, and more foreign exchanges…That’s why the work of the Universal Peace Federation and The Washington Times is so important, and I thank Rev. Moon and salute all of you for coming here to address these urgent issues.†George H.W. Bush
John Gornfeld brings word of further Bush family cavorting with Reverend Sun Myung Moon, this time in the hallowed halls of the College Station Texas Bush Presidential Library.
It’s return on investment for the Korean cult leader.
Friend to Power*
Moonies funneled a million to the Bush Library on the sly, and former President Bush has given multiple speeches for pay to various Moon front groups. Bush bad seed Neil Bush, son of the former and brother of the current, has been on the Moon payroll for years. Most recently he traveled to Paraguay during the last days of the Colorado Party’s clinging to the
Down Paraguay Way 
presidency, and Moon has put a million dollars into Neil’s troubled education via cow schemes. 
The current Bush Administration has returned the favors, giving Moonies a piece of the abstinence education boondoggle among others.
Beginning of the End 
A fugitive from American fraud and bribery charges since the 1970s, Robert Vesco may have died in Cuba, which jailed him for a more than a decade.
The Associated Press reports that a Robert Vesco died and was buried last year in Havana, but quotes an American writer who interviewed Vesco as having doubts.
Nixon Man 
A $200,000 bribe to Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President over a Securities & Exchange Commission investigation was among the charges that led Vesco to flee the US.
Before the fall Vesco collected the bad seeds of several First Families.
Vesco knew failed restaurateur and Nixon brother Donald Nixon, who testified at the bribe trial, and employed Donald Nixon Jr. One of Franklin Roosevelt’s sons was also charged by the SEC.
Vesco ended up in Cuba after hiding out in several Caribbean nations. Among other dubious schemes he worked with Donald Junior on aids cures before the Cubans jailed him for 13 years. Nixon got off with a month’s house arrest.
So Close, And Yet… 
The intrepid vision questers at Fast Company have encountered a truly lost world, one where a youthful Richard Nixon painted the golden vision of a slacker tomorrow. 
“We see the time not too far distant when we can have a four-day work week and family life will be even more fully enjoyed by every American . . . These are not dreams or idle boasts—they are simple projections of the gains we have made in the last four years.”
Time reports that Nixon could not name this beckoning future, but the Vice President was clearly high on his own fumes:
“…whatever it is, it is something new and far better than anything the world has ever seen.”
Not What He Had In Mind
Future Ford Afloat! 
Who’d a thunk we’d turn to ESPN’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” to point out oddities at sea, but Gregg Easterbrook is on to something peculiar in the Navy’s naming schemes.
The troubled USS Gerald Ford, paired with Reagan and Bush Sr. ships, sent him over the edge.
“TMQ finds repugnant this blatant Pentagon favoritism for Republicans. Gerald Ford was never elected to national office: he was appointed to the vice presidency, then became president by succession when Richard Nixon resigned. The never-elected, half-term Ford will have a supercarrier named for him while Clinton, a two-term president twice chosen by U.S. voters, does not.”
Bush Is Gear 
A groundswell [or tsunami?] for Gerry is difficult to detect. The wingers at Newsmax ran petitions to name the ship for Ford, even touting USS Ford caps. Their site is Ford-free of merchandise now, if it ever carried it.
And lest we forget, the USS John F.Kennedy was retired last year.
