tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post207815620811754621..comments2024-01-12T15:32:22.236-08:00Comments on The Episconixonian: Library LucreFr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09974142521713230215noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-21661700336372193562011-03-02T07:57:11.625-08:002011-03-02T07:57:11.625-08:00Thanks, Juan. Our initiative along those lines was...Thanks, Juan. Our initiative along those lines was the Nixon Center, which we launched in 1994 with Nixon's full support -- a foreign policy center in Washington dedicated to promoting his principles of enlightened national interest:<br /><br />www.nixoncenter.org<br /><br />37 himself agreed with you about museums and libraries. The Center was the only aspect of the Nixon foundation's work in which he seemed more than politely interested.Fr. Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09974142521713230215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-49797745960111535002011-03-02T06:52:30.191-08:002011-03-02T06:52:30.191-08:00I agree that the traditional presidential museum a...I agree that the traditional presidential museum and library concept will have to change or go the way of the dodo. How many of today's presidential museums will hold the attention of audiences fifty years hence? <br /><br />Philanthropic efforts such as the Clinton Initiative have a much better chance of survival, thus preserving that president's memory in a most practical and positive light. Perhaps the Nixon library should establsih a charitable concern logically connected to RN's presidency (cancer research and treatment, for instance) and deemphasize the historical interpretation efforts. <br /><br />Philip Larkin's poem about the futility of funeral monuments in view of the transience of memory, concludes wisely that "what will survive of us is love."J.C. Marreronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-81299831758140381952011-02-28T21:49:42.792-08:002011-02-28T21:49:42.792-08:00Yep, that's right!Yep, that's right!MKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-78982512067552500822011-02-28T21:43:26.656-08:002011-02-28T21:43:26.656-08:00Thanks, MK. I don't think it happens until a p...Thanks, MK. I don't think it happens until a president says, "I don't want a library."Fr. Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09974142521713230215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-28735237776638089312011-02-28T21:32:11.471-08:002011-02-28T21:32:11.471-08:00Interesting, isn't it? The real challenge for...Interesting, isn't it? The real challenge for the right is the reprehensible way that Limbaugh and Beck and Palin have treated Obama. As a result, he cannot be the first U.S. president not to have a presidential library. IF there is change, it will have to post-date Obama, our honor demands it. As you know, when the PRA was passed, one stipulation was that it not apply to the incumbent president (Carter.) It would be dishonorable and a rejection of everything the U.S. stands for, as well as unmanly (in my view) for anyone to call for Obama to be the first not to have a library. As usual, the extremists outside government have done their side no service.MKnoreply@blogger.com