Posted on 09/30/2011 9:50:55 AM PDT by kcvl
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2001/01/presidential_library_faq.html
I know it’s Slate - but it is interesting - and depressing.
**Who pays for a presidential library?
Both private citizens and taxpayers. Before any bricks get laid, a private foundation is created to raise the money for the both the building and an endowment to run special programs and exhibits. In order to keep former presidents from erecting another Great Pyramid in their honor, the government requires that the bigger the square footage, the bigger the endowment. Once the building is dedicated, the library is turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, which runs it, paying for both the staff, such as a director and archivists—who are federal employees—and much of the maintenance***.
Talk about an over-priced bridge to nowhere, a trip from the Clinton library to a swamp will surely qulify.
There are AT LEAST five thousand people lined up to see and hear Bill & Hillary Clinton today. You just can’t put a price on S T U P I D !!!
OH GOODY, Bill now has a bridge he can troll under!
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