I just love springtime: migrating birds returning, new flowers poking through the ground, aspens budding in clusters and liars spilling their guts in congressional hearings. It’s a shame the bad boys in the White House won’t enjoy the weather. They’ll be huddled all weekend trying to plot a course through the mess they’ve created. We, of course, need only kick back in the sun and wait for the next email dump.
Wait! I know I’m probably jumping the gun, but with Bushco in such rapid decline I thought it might be a good idea to help George get started on his memoir. Who knows, the one-way ticket to Paraguay might already be stuffed in his front-coat pocket. So anyway, I dug around the internet and came up with a list of past presidential memoirs to use as my guide.
Click on down to read them and maybe add your own.
Truman: Mr. Citizen: Memoirs of Harry S. Truman, Vol.4
Bush: Get that Citizen: Greatest Memories for G.W. Bush, Vol. 36
Eisenhower: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956
Bush: I’ll Wait for Cheney, 2001-2007
Carter: Always a Reckoning
Bush: Always Awrecking
Kennedy: Profiles in Courage
Bush: Pedophiles in Congress
Hoover: The Challenge to Liberty
Bush: The Challenge to Libby
Wilson: Why We Are at War (1917) Six war messages to Congress
Bush: Why We Are at War (2002-2008) Fuck Congress six ways
Ford: Portrait of the Assassin (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Bush: Portrait of the Asshole (Karl Rove)
Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe (war memoirs)
Bush: Gatorade in Europe (mountain biking memoirs)
Nixon: In the Arena
Bush: In the Area; My NOLA flyover
Bush 41: All the Best
Bush 43: All a Bust
Ford: A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
Bush: A Time to Steal: The Autokleptocracy of George W. Bush
Carter: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
Bush: Keeping Feith: Mentor of the President
Ford: Humor and the Presidency
Bush: Joke of a Presidency
Carter: Talking Peace
CheneyBush: Talking Piece
Nixon: RN: The Memoir of Richard Nixon
Bush: BS: Memoir of the Decider
Carter (with Rosalynn): Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life
Bush (with Cheney): Everything’s Game: Making the Most Money for the Rest of Our Life
Johnson: The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency
Bush: A Vintage Joint: Parties at the Residency
Reagan: An American Life
Bush: An American Leech
Lincoln: Abe Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley (on saving the union)
Bush: George Bush, Tethered to Alberto Gonzales (on saving our union)
Carter: Why Not the Best?
Bush: Why Not the Rest?
Reagan: In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
Bush: I’m My Own Man: The Blatherings of George W. Bush That Reveal His Laudatory Vision of Himself
Carter: Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
Bush: Talking Points: No Candor, No Sense for the Nation to Gauge
Hoover: The Problems of Lasting Peace
Bush: I Got a Problem with Lasting Peace"
Coolidge: The Talkative President: The Off-the Record Press Conferences of Coolidge
Bush: The Talkative President: The Off-the-Cuff Press Utterances of G.W. Bush
Carter: A Government as Good as Its People
Bush: A Government that Stood on Its People
Ford: Presidential Perspectives from the National Archives
Bush: Presidential Plunderage of the National Treasure
Ford: Selected Speeches
Bush: Selected Sputtering
Suggestions for George’s bio and dedication page would also be appreciated. Even though we didn’t help him into this mess, in the spirit of camaraderie, let’s help him out. Of the White House.