Pen and Papers

Richard Nixon has had a tough time finding a place for his presidential papers. Duke University abandoned plans for a Richard M. Nixon Library, and so did the city of Independence, Mo. Now a town in Kansas is bidding for the library, but Nixon may find the offer a bit confining. Reason: the eager suitor is Leavenworth, home to a maximum-security federal penitentiary and three other prisons.

Clyde Graeber, one of the city's five commissioners, concocted the plan as a way to lure law-abiding visitors to Leavenworth. A local businessman has offered to donate ten acres of land, and town officials are busily devising schemes to raise funds to build the library. The former President has not been consulted, but the Chicago Sun Times, begging his pardon, is keen on the idea. Editorialized the paper: "You know, we had a feeling he'd make it there some day."

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