Posted on 07/04/2010 6:37:20 PM PDT by Taft in '52
In other words, the National Archives functionaries who now run the Nixon Library are laying down a party line that docents now must toe in order to properly indoctrinate students. Your tax money is paying for this.
Just disgusting.
It’s the way communism works. They will take over and infiltrate everything. The churches, the schools, the military etc.. They leave nothing untouched. And it’s all on purpose..
I didn’t realize people still use the word “docents”.
Up until 2007, the Nixon Library was privately run by the Nixon Foundation. President Nixon wanted no taxpayer money to be used for the facility, so it accepted no government funding whatsoever.
This policy ended in 2007. In order to get Nixon’s presidential papers, which by law belong to the National Archives, the foundation agreed to join the Presidential Library system, which includes the libraries of all presidents beginning with Hoover, and which is part of the National Archives. Sadly, this turned out to be a Faustian bargain for the foundation.
Docents are volunteers who work in museums assisting the public. The Nixon Library maintains a robust docent program. Volunteers lead tours or assist visitors in the galleries. At least some of the other presidential libraries, including Reagan's, also make use of volunteer docents. However, I didn't see any when I visited Kennedy's library.
The left want to control everything, literally. Everything is political to them.
I wonder if they’ll let me volunteer at the Clinton library and massage parlor?
For the same reason Obama would appoint an I.C.E.-hater as head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. It's a lefty tactic.. "If you can control it, you can destroy it." It can be done with entire countries too.. U.S.A. comes to mind.
I was at the Reagan library last summer, and thought the foundation there controlled things.
I think that’s great. An example of why the zombie-esque sucking at the public teat long after death is a perversion.
Stop the enshrining of President’s as national gods. Like the President’s of more moral times (Presidency-wise) be an example. They returned to being regular citizens, not modern demi-gods of the colossus-state.
At the Nixon library, the Foundation controls part of the facility--not the galleries or the archives. It also puts on programs and raises funds.
The business offices in the basement remind one of Berlin during the Cold War or Jerusalem before the Six Day War. Thhe Foundation's wing is decorated with Nixon posters, but a portrait of Barack Obama greets visitors to the National Archives offices, which one must enter through an electronically locked door (the Foundation offices are open). The door has been likened to Checkpoint Charlie or the Mandelbaum Gate.
"As a response to the leaks, the Nixon administration began a campaign against further leaks and against Ellsberg personally. Aides Egil Krogh and David Young under John Ehrlichman's supervision created the 'White House Plumbers,' which would later lead to the Watergate burglaries."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fallout
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So what is Daniel Ellsberg up to these days? Well, for one thing, he is an endorser of the Revolutionary Communist Party's "World Can't Wait" movement...
Click on the 'World Can't Wait' link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include" You may recognize a few other names as well, including the democrat chair of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. Conyers' name appears right after Ward Churchill's.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:
James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
I enjoy my trips to the Nixon library and appreciate his work more and more. It’s sad that losers wish to destroy his bright insights on politics.
I suspect some of the interns running the “approved tours” are going to have some rough but educational days, as the folks touring the Nixon Library will be self-selected to have an above average regard for him.
our school children will soon learn that jimmah was a most excellent pres - while ANY republican pres was awful...
I went to the Nixon and Reagan libraries in 1998 and found the staff at the Nixon library much more accommodating.
“Everything is political to them.”
Agree. Absolutely everything.
The docents at the Nixon Library strive to be hospitable and to give visitors accurate information. They are highly regarded among those in the field.
Unfortunately, they run the school tours, so they can fill young, impressionable minds with "politically correct" propaganda.
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