Subject: U.S. Presidents

• Duncan Hunter, Dick Nixon and "Gunga Dana" Rohrabacher

  In light of San Diego area rightwing hawk Rep. Duncan Hunter's quixotic bid for the U.S. presidency, MadCow Morning News compiles the Top Ten Reasons to Go Dunkin' With Duncan. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed pal who spotted this and passed it along). Included are comparisons of Hunter to OC's Favorite Disgraced Son ("We are currently in the fifth year of the war in Iraq. Remember the towering figure that came along during the fifth year of the Vietnam War? Right! Richard Nixon!") and a sly reference

  November 1, 2006

• Rohrabacher: Why aren't we causing a revolution in China?

  Last night in a C-SPAN televised speech, Dana Rohrabacher called Chinese government officials “gangsters,” slammed both Bush presidential administrations for failing to challenge China’s human rights abuses and complained that the U.S. Government isn’t working to spur a democratic revolution in that nation on the eve of the next Olympic games. Oh, and the OC-Long Beach Republican congressman also told us that Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have been a coward to stand up to the Chinese Commun

  October 2, 2007

• Why Won't the Times Print Obscene Jokes About Blacks?

  The Los Angeles Times ran an obituary today on Earl Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture under Yorba Linda boy Richard Nixon. Per the obit, "He was forced to resign his Cabinet post in October 1976 after telling an obscene joke that was derogatory to blacks." The Times, in its ever-genteel ways, didn't even bother to hint at Butz's crack, but we at the Weekly give it to you in its entirety after the jump!

  February 3, 2008

• Not Trickie Dick's Western White House But an Amazing Facsimile

  Variety columnist Bashirah Muttalib has a fascinating piece about the Herculean task the Frost/Nixon location manager had in trying to film key Orange County locations depicted in the film, which is set in the late 1970s.The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda opened its doors for location man Greg Alpert and the rest of director Ron Howard's crew. Access to La Casa Pacifica, the Western White House during Nixon's presidency and his former home with wife Pat, was more problematic

  December 12, 2008

• Meet The New Dick, Same As The Old Dick

  Because today would have been Richard Milhous Nixon's 94th birthday, I've decided to roll out something I was not prepared to roll out: TheNewDick.org. It's my new website/blog that strives to present all the ways the 37th president of the United States, despite being very dead, still manages to inspire, enliven and invade popular culture. TheNewDick.org is inspired, enlivened and invaded by TheNewNixon.org blog, brought to you by the Richard Nixon Foundation

  January 9, 2009

• Historians: Lots of Presidents Worse Than OC's Favorite Disgraced Son

  It was mused here previously that, based on their respective (low) popularity ratings, George W. Bush was more despised upon leaving the presidency than Orange County's favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon, which prompted our tip of the press hat to the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda for their masterful, decades-in-the-making-Nixon makeover. Well, it seems those low ratings must have also influenced the nation's historians, w

  February 17, 2009

• $15 2-Course Lunch at Anaheim White House For Administrative Professionals' Week

  The Anaheim White House is offering a special for Administrative Assistants' (or Professionals') Week (April 20-24). For $15, you can treat your Administrative Assistant (or Professional) for a two-course lunch (an entree and dessert), and you don't have to report it on your 10-K. Heck for $15, if you are well-to-do enough to have an Administrative Assistant (or Professional) working for you, you can probably afford to just pay it out your own pocket! Though I wouldn't let on that the meal

  April 21, 2009

• As Rep. Calvert Beams Over Gipper Statue, Many Fume

  Courtesy U.S. Capitol"Ladies and gentlemen, the statue of Ronald Reagan," the announcer inside the Capitol Rotunda said last Wednesday before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped 87-year-old Nancy Reagan to her feet so she could tug back the blue drape cloaking Chas Fagan's 7-foot bronze statue of the Gipper.The audience rose to politely applaud. Among them were a bipartisan collection of the type of folks you'd normally see shouting each other down on the Sunday chat shows. From the right came for

  June 9, 2009

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009

• And Speaking of John Dean in Orange County . . .

  UPDATED WITH CORRECTED GENDER FOR ONE MAN, JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER (THANK YOU, REV. TAYLOR). Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, whose June appearance drew 300 people to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and the wrath of the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, is returning to Orange County next month."The Fullerton Public Library proudly presents an author talk with John W. Dean, best-selling author of Worse Than Watergate," states the fli

  July 21, 2009

• George McGovern Spreads Peace at the Warring Nixon Library

  George McGovern, peacemaker​It took former U.S. Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) to bring peace to the library and museum dedicated to the memory of his opponent in the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon.  Ten weeks after the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced it was ending co-sponsorships with the federally funded Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum over the museum-sponsored, June 17 appearance by John Dean, the foundation and mus

  August 25, 2009

• Gore Vidal and George McGovern Are the Stars, But Spirit of Ted Kennedy Also Fills Nixon Library

  Photo by Christopher Victorio George McGovern (left) listens to Gore Vidal's introduction at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.Legends of liberalism Gore Vidal and George McGovern were the honored guests at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda last night, but the spirit of Ted Kennedy also filled the replica of the White House's East Room.   Yes, you read that right: the RICHARD NIXON Presidential Library and Museum.

  August 27, 2009

• Chinese-American Protesters Seeing Red at Nixon Library

  The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace (now Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) opened in 1990 and for nearly that long there has been a permanent Hall of World Leaders exhibit featuring life-size statues of such history-shapers as Winston Churchill, Charles deGaulle and Mao Tse-Tung. It's the inclusion of that last fellow--China's deceased "Chairman Mao" of the Long March, Little Red Book and Beatles "Revolution" fame--that has finally sparked a protest against the Yo

  September 30, 2009