The York Pennsylvania National Watch & Clock Museum is thinking big, readying an exhibit of presidential time pieces.
The topic has exploded in recent years, from interest in Bill Clinton’s 
Ironman, to George Bush’s watch theft 
[or not] 
in Albania, to…well that about does it.
The Museum starts off with four items: a pocket-watch and clock from James Monroe, a Gerald Ford clock, and for the young people, Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s wristwatch.
How to fill the gaps? Relying on the people!
” the museum is looking for people in the region who might have presidential clocks and watches that they’d loan to the cause.”
Who’ll Watch the Watches? 
This Close to Outa Here
The Bush Administration is lying very still and hoping troubles pass them by on the Presidential papers front.
The President has declined to appeal a federal judge’s invalidating part of a Bush Executive Order, part of which effectively hid papers forever. But the judge did not yet touch Bush’s giving Presidential descendants right to control papers into the future. Bush also gave ex Vice Presidents and their descendants the same, although they had never had such powers previously.
The Executive Order has slowed public release of past President’s papers to a crawl. Legislation to overturn all of Bush’s Order is stalled by a Republican Senate “hold.”
Is the strategy to keep as little of this as possible before the public for as long as possible?
In the {Philadelphia Inquirer, Jack Ayer reviews Conrad Black’s Nixon opus, and pulls a fine Black apologia for Nixon:
“The aggregate is what must rank as one of the oddest summaries for any career: “not a uniquely sleazy president, but was treated as one.””
Haunting parallel alert: Black faces sentencing Friday. 
What Would Lyndon Drive?
The National Park Service faces a dilemma.
LBJ Ranch visitors have always had to park and load unto buses, which would take them to the big house. Visitors are declining, and his ranch office opens for the birth centenary in August. The Austin American-Statesman reports that the Park Service and the Johnson family want to let visitors drive onto the ranch to boost numbers. But former Ranch staffers, led by a former NPS Chief Historian say cars will compromise the park’s historic integrity.
Where the hell did Reagan Road come from? 
The York Pennsylvania National Watch & Clock Museum is thinking big, readying an exhibit of presidential time pieces.
Ironman, to George Bush’s watch theft 
in Albania, to…well that about does it.
