Your friend most have be most unusual.
From what I heard on television this morning, the library was built in a part of Little Rock that was very run down. New shops have begun to open so apparently property values have increased. Little Rock is expecting tourism to increase.
I also think that I heard that there are only twelve Presidential libraries.
Your partisanship is showing.
If you don’t want to visit, then don’t, but don’t begrudge the man his due as a former United States President. He is getting the same treatment as the forty-odd men before him… nothing more, nothing less.
I think that Presidential Libraries are abominations.
Despite what was said above, I don’t believe all presidents have libraries. It’s a relatively recent thing. Was there a Presidential LIbrary prior to FDR’s? I know that the papers of the earliest presidents are held by University Libraries, and it seems to me that some sort of arrangement between Universities and the Federal Government would be a good thing. Presidential libraries sem to me to be exercises in vanity, and eventually our landscape will be dotted with the damned things.
I didn’t mean all presidents get libraries as they probably are a recent invention. I meant that he’s getting some sort of landmark or building or monument named after him, which is hardly uncommon.
Don’t remind me – I’m already too close to the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan presidential libraries for my taste. One of these days, I plan to do a tour of said libraries with a fifty-pound bag of salt…