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Nice work if you can get it... the editors of Cabinet magazine ("Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words art,' 'culture,' and 'magazine.'") spent years scouring libraries for Reagan's footballs, JFK's sailboats, and Herbert Hoover's architectural oddities. No, these aren't actual artifacts -- they're doodles! 

The result is 'Presidential Doodles,' just out from Basic Books -- visit that site for even more doodles, from Nixon, Roosevelt, Washington and more. You can also take a "Which President Drew This?" quiz, or send an e-card with a prez-ified doodle on it. Why not take a break from your own daily conference-call doodling and check it out?

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• #2 Comment from modlifecrisis 
  9/21/06 7:40 AM | Permalink

  This is so interesting. When I was only 7 years old we visited our State Senator in DC who was RFK at the time. He was not there but in a more gentle era we were permitted to just go into his office by ourselves, unmonitored.
  
  With all the photos and Kennedy-iana abounding, the most fascinating thing to me was the framed doodles by JFK he did during the Cuban Missle Crisis. At age 7 I thought this was the most insightful item about JFK in the whole room. (I am sure I didnt use insightful then, but I felt like he was a "real" person
  
  Decades later I saw the same doodle I had stood infront of for a long time back in 1964 in a JFK Special Exhibit at the St Petersburg Museum.
  
  I am so thrilled to see this is now considered an artform and is appreciated as much as I did back so long ago
• #1 Comment from visionarydiva1 
  9/20/06 9:40 PM | Permalink

  Sounds interesting.....I will have to see if I can read an excerpt.
  
  Amy
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