Captain_Maclaine posted:

Having spent a week working in it back in June, I have to admit that the Nixon Library and archive is very well organized and staffed by helpful, professional people who want to help with any project, regardless of what attitude you take towards that library's namesake. I know since mine contains a hefty amount of "he was a criminal shithead who did damage to America that persists to this day," albeit in somewhat more polite language.

zoux posted:

Best Presidentially named campus building is the LBJ Library because it's an actual working library and endowment and not a shrine.

Kurtofan posted:

My high school was named after Jacques Brel.

Badger of Basra posted:

It also has a pretty good public policy school (which I am going to)

But I've heard people in the state government don't trust any research that comes out of it because it's got LBJ's name on it, they only read stuff from the Bush school

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The house was built in 1912 almost entirely by Nixon's father, Frank, in the center of the family's citrus groves. On the right as you enter is a brick fireplace flanked by a straight-backed settee and a straight-backed chair. (No wonder Nixon was such a stiff; he never got to flop on a comfy couch.) To the left is the family's upright Crown piano, along with Nixon's clarinet, saxophone, accordion and violin, all acquired because his mother, Hannah, felt he had a major musical muse.

"I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics," Nixon says on the audio tour.

Badger of Basra posted:

It also has a pretty good public policy school (which I am going to)

But I've heard people in the state government don't trust any research that comes out of it because it's got LBJ's name on it, they only read stuff from the Bush school

zoux posted:

I know so many people with MPAs and MPPs from LBJ it's ridiculous.

Joementum posted:

The Nixon birthplace is also interesting, if only because he reveals what might have been.

Joementum posted:

The Nixon birthplace is also interesting, if only because he reveals what might have been.

Chantilly Say posted:

Just imagine if Nixon had become a musician following the trends of our current era:

zoux posted:

As usual, lol at Vermont.

Chantilly Say posted:

Just imagine if Nixon had become a musician following the trends of our current era:



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Hedera Helix posted:

Yes! Eat it Washington, we have better taste in music than you

Thanatosian posted:

We liked Macklemore before it was cool.

zoux posted:

Shear Modulus posted:

There's an alternate universe where Nixon was the first white rapper and Gingrich a host of an animal TV show and it's a much happier world for all involved.

Thanatosian posted:

Shall we post some of Jay Z's lyrical offerings regarding homosexuality?

R. Mute posted:

people who say daft punk are their favourite band are generally horrible people, though

Joementum posted:

I saw them in concert once and it was OK, but they were just playing tracks right off their records without remixing them or anything.

Matoi Ryuko posted:

Yeah definitely, I think what really stands out to me is that Daft Punk could get away with sending actors in place of themselves, where as a masked performer like Buckethead couldn't get away with it.