Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Face Facts 
Powerline forum participant “G. Will” [because the bow-tie pulls the babes?] has nailed the real trouble with Mike Huckabee:
“Only Problem: Huckabee Looks Like Nixon!..He is a no-winner due to this sorry quirk of Nature.”
Huckabee’s not alone.
Signposts on the Nixon Trail include vegetables: 
Trees: 
Rock formations: 
More rocks: 
And the great state of Montana: 
Return to Yesteryear 
Freed from the burdens of Front Runnership, John McCain has the time to let his mind run free, dreaming of his likely never-to-be Presidency.
Engaging in the one-on-one interaction so prized by New Hampshire voters, Mccain gave a tour of his most admired Presidents.
The Boston Globe managed to feign surprise that Harry Truman made the list. And not for the glories of the early Cold War, firing MacArthur or integrating the Army.
McCain’s Truman fixation was on the little man strolling about with a single bodyguard.
“”He could walk out of the White House and take a walk with one Secret Service agent. One Secret Service agent!…My, how times have changed.””
Indeed. In 1951.
Truman’s temporary home at Blair House was attacked by Puerto Rican Nationalists. A policeman and one of the Nationalists died. 
Congress responded by formalizing the Secret Service’s protective role, and enumerating who would be covered.
Plain Spoken, Flame Broiled 
Harry Truman’s real estate/memorial empire continues to blossom, despite his death 35 years ago, adding properties he couldn’t possibly remember and some he’d probably just as soon forget.
The House has passed a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to consider adding the Harry Truman Birthplace 
to the National Park Service. Mr. Feisty spent his formative first eleven months in the home, which has been a state park since 1959 when the United Auto Workers gave it to Missouri. The site closed due to unspecified “hazardous conditions” shortly after the House vote.
The Independence Missouri house Truman lived in before and after his presidency 
was acquired by the Park Service in the 1980s. Since then they have gobbled up two Truman in-law houses around the 
corner, and acquired a neighboring house at 216 North Delaware. 
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The NPS bought into trouble with these homes and two of them are getting new foundations.
The Park Service does own the Truman farm 
near town where young Harry slaved for his father until World War I saved him, but the “boyhood home” at 909 West Waldo in Independence 
remains in private hands.
The Truman Historic Site sits in an historic district named for him, and in theory there’s nothing to stop the Park Service from buying them everything in sight.
Is there a more stirring locator in American journalism today? The New York Times’ Patrick Healy tags along as Hillary Clinton trolls the frozen Iowa wastes – and you are there!
The dutiful Lyndon Johnson/1948 Texas Senate race analogies have been made.
Johnson’s in the news more legitimately in Supreme Court filings over Indiana’s Voter ID law. Ballot Access News reports that the Texas Attorney General gets the election year wrong in part of his filing. He also uses this fairly clear case of ballot box stuffing to justify forcing ID requirements on voters – the remote in service of the unproven.
He’d have appreciated the flag on the dumpster
New Jersey’s The Record provides blow by blow Nixon demolition pictures, as the Sage of Saddle River’s “rustic prize” of a wreck of a house went down. 
Richard Nixon’s home for the 1980s was knocked down Wednesday.
