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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.

 

    Hey Sailor!           

 

Homophobe Poster Girl and Fox News Channel Fake Blonde Of Tomorrow Carrie Prejean is to join Ronald Reagan scion Michael Reagan in solidifying the USS Ronald Reagan’s place in right-wing imagery.

The family-friendly duo are to visit the floating icon, where Prejean will no doubt feel at ease thanks to the US military’s abhorrence of “opposite marriage.”

 

 

Hold The Sauce

It is Spring, and a young man’s fancy turns to just how much action did President Kennedy get?                                                                                                                                       All Hands

 

The season has already been marked by news of an exciting tell-some, or rather a  “woman’s coming-of-age story” book by a previously revealed presidential trollop, and the rather grisly news that our charismatic  chief executive was spreading Chlamydia.

For Now                

London Conservative activists have received local government planning permission to erect sixteen feet of Ronald Reagan statue outside America’s Grosvenor Square embassy, but the statue may become an orphan when a new embassy is built in South London.

Westminster Council overrode its own rule that monument subjects must be dead ten years, and the ten foot statue [with a Berlin Wall chunk placed demurely at its feet] is to be mounted on a six foot high plinth.

It might be considered a companion piece to the Eisenhower statue which already dresses up the Embassy’s impressive      barricade collection.

The Obama administration has yet to name an Ambassador to Britain, and in the meanwhile we are free to draw humorous inferences from anonymous embassy utterances, which make clear this is not their deal:

“This is not something that we have requested or actively tried to get brought about,” an embassy spokesman said yesterday. “We’re happy to have our presidents honoured but this statue was not a US Government initiative.”

Asked whether the mission would take the statue with it when it leaves Grosvenor Square for its new head-quarters in Nine Elms, south of the Thames, he replied: “It’s not our statue.”

If  Reagan is left behind he may soon be engulfed in a construction site: Westminster wants the sixties classic building gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.      

Their commercial predecessors are a little more creative on the appropriation of images front however.