Presidential Libraries-- Part 3

GERALD R. FORD PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Ann Arbor, Michigan, opened April 27, 1981

**  Cost $4.3 million

**  What, no museum?


JIMMY CARTER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Atlanta, dedicated Oct. 1, 1986

**  Includes the Carter Center, a nonprofit human rights agency that helped elevate Carter's status as an international humanitarian formed in partnership with Emory University.

**  A $10 million renovation completed in 2009.

**  I think it should have been in Plains, Georgia.


RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Simi Valley, California, dedicated Nov. 4, 1991.

**  The $60 million library originally planned for Stanford University, but some at the school objected to its connection with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

**  A $15 million renovation completed in 2011, adding an exhibit featuring the Boeing 707 aircraft Reagan used as Air Force One during his administration.

**  Should have been in Tampico or Dixon, Illinois (hopefully that lady wouldn't have stolen any of its money).


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Yorba Linda, California, dedicated March 1994.

**  Before the National Archives took over in 2007, the library had been accused of glossing over Nixon's 1974 resignation.  After assuming management, the Archives removed the Watergate exhibit and in 2011 reopened it with a new, more historically accurate one.

**  Why no first name?

Four More to Come.  --Cooter