Continuing from the previous Chicago Tribune article.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, affiliated with the University of Texas in Austin, set the standard for research facilities in 1971, when it opened with 45 million pages of presidential documents and 2,000 oral history interviews.
The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, opened in 2004 and holds more than 78 million pages, 2 million photographs and 12,500 videotapes.
Since the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum opened in 1979, every presidential library has had some affiliation with a major university. It is adjacent to the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. The Gerald R. Ford Library is on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The George H.W. Bush Library is at Texas A&M University at College Station and the George W. Bush Library will open in April on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
The University of Hawaii, where President Obama's parents attended school definitely would like to have it. But, the University of Chicago, where Obama was a member of the law school faculty for 12 years is widely considered a front-runner.
More to Come. --DaCoot
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