Biographer Edmund Morris, known for his unusual biography of Ronald Reagan and work on Theodore Roosevelt, with a NY Times op-ed presenting an imaginary interview with a 150-year old TR himself. Rather quirky in Morris fashion, but poignant, considering how the Republicans of today sure ain’t the party of Lincoln or Roosevelt:
Q. What’s your impression of President Bush these days?
[Teddy Roosevelt] A. (suddenly serious) He looks like Judas, but unlike that gentleman has no capacity for remorse.
Q. Is that the best you can say of him?
A. I wish him well, but I wish him well at a good distance from me.
Q. One last question, Colonel. If you were campaigning now, would you still call yourself a Republican?
A. (after a long pause) No.
This is pretty heart-breaking – the piece-by-piece end of Shea Stadium.
Removal of the remainders of the old Hudson & Manhattan Railroad from the World Trade Center’s slurry wall.
The passing of writer Tony Hillerman, best known for writing the novels of Native American detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.