Presidential Libraries-- Part 4

GEORGE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

College Station, Texas, dedicated Nov. 6, 1997.

**  Cost $80 million

**  Unlike the Oval Office replicas at other presidential libraries, visitors can enter the space and sit behind the desk and have their picture taken.  (Sounds neat to me.  Sign me up.)

**  Wondering if they have a lip-reading exhibit?


WILLIAM J. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Little Rock, Arkansas, dedicated Nov. 18, 2004.

**  Includes the Clinton/Univ. of Arkansas School of Public Service  The $165 million library has the largest collection of artifacts and documents of all libraries--  more than 35,000 cubic feet.

**  An exhibit mentions his relationship with Monica Lewinsky which led to his impeachment.  It categorizes it as a personal lapse that was a part of the larger fight for power with the Republican Congress.  Sure, blame it on the Republicans.

**  What, no museum?  I would liked to have seen the dress and cigar.

**  Quite a bit more expensive than Ford's library.  Could have been paid for with his speaking fees.


GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Dallas, opening in April.

**  Expected to cost $250 million to $300 million

**  And I thought Clinton's was expensive.  I hope they're using private funds.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Springfield, Illinois, opened in 2004 (I thought 2005)

**  Not operated by the National Archives and Records Administration.  It was created by the Illinois State Historical Society which was established in 1889 to house state records, governor prison records and other materials.

**  With 300,000 visitors a year, the highest attendance of any presidential library.

**  We've been to it twice, the only presidential museum I've been to.  Well worth it.

Well, That's About It.  --DaCoot