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Duke should demand unconditional control of the records and refuse to build a monument to the disgraced former president. Nixon deserves no museum and no shrine--and certainly no opening ceremonies celebrating his legacy. But no one should underestimate the importance and value of his presidential papers. Nixon, for better or (more likely) for worse, was a major political figure of the 20th century and his presidency remains an important factor in all our lives. Historians, journalists and interested citizens of the present and future will find his papers invaluable for understanding the use and abuse of power...
...Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money for the Harry Truman Library, resigned to protest a plan that, he said, would inevitably result in a memorial to Nixon. Declared History Professor Richard Watson: "The question is, to whom are we erecting a monument? The answer is, to a President forced to resign to avoid being impeached. Mr. Nixon would have a continuing relationship with his library...
...Wall. Willy Brandt was mayor of West Berlin when the East Germans sealed the border virtually overnight. Last week, in its own schizophrenic way, the city that incarnates all of the tragedy of Europe's brutal division between East and West marked the latest anniversary of the monument to repression...
...other states, inspired by his example, had 3,232,701. Viewers of Britain's royal wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral last week were reminded that the church's architect, Sir Christoper Wren, is buried there beneath a marker that reads, "If you seek his monument, look about you." Robert Moses could be buried anywhere in New York State, perhaps anywhere in America, beneath a tombstone that says just that. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Petor Stoler/New York
...indicate what Rodin absorbed by way of themes, images and treatments from lesser men like Jean-Paul Aubé, whose figure of Dante conversing with a damned soul may have helped start the train of thought that led to The Gates of Hell, or Alexandre Falguière, whose monument to Lamartine is distantly echoed in Rodin's bronze crag of literature, the Balzac. Yet Rodin's superiority was not so evident when he was young. His father was a small fonctionnaire, stuck in the French bureaucratic anthill. His school record was poor, and he failed three times...