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Clinton Library Attendance Disappointing
NewsMax ^ | 1/18/05

Posted on 01/18/2005 2:27:14 AM PST by NRA1995

When it opened two months ago, Bill Clinton's presidential library was supposed to draw so many visitors that the city of Little Rock would become a tourist mecca.

However early reports claiming that over 100,000 had visited in just the first six weeks have turned out to be bogus.

The National Archives and Records Administration, which operates the facility, tells U.S. News & World Report that only 42,054 paid to enter. The rest were guests of the former president and freebies to VIPs. Despite wall-to-wall television coverage of its opening, and a deluge of favorable press, attendance figures for the $162 million compound are even less than the attendance at the Reagan and Bush 41 libraries immediately after they opened.

"I thought it would be better," a disappointed Clinton told the magazine.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: clinton; impeachedx42; library; stainedbluedress; thebentone; trailerpark; wetcigar; x42
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To: spectre

42k over 6 weeks is 1000 per day. The average will dip below that as time goes on. One thing you won't have to worry about is crowding if you do visit.


121 posted on 01/18/2005 6:51:09 AM PST by xp38
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To: spectre
Wow! they spend millions and you would think that would splurge on a meter counter... maybe not; just knowing how they think it's easier to guess , much easier to funnel money to Hiltery's campaign if you don't have to account for it. If only 42,000 paid ... that not going to go far. I wonder if City has given new owners permit to open the Real Clinton Library. City can make up it's loss pretty quick
122 posted on 01/18/2005 6:53:35 AM PST by newfrpr04
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To: TheSarce

Thanks for the post. Ping me when you post the pics if it is not too much trouble!


123 posted on 01/18/2005 6:55:06 AM PST by shattered
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To: InvisibleChurch

Al Gore and Kerry would be better vote counters. Of Course you can always send the Rev. Jessie Jackson. The attendance low vote count is W's fault


124 posted on 01/18/2005 6:56:16 AM PST by newfrpr04
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To: Dawgreg

and the old Webber BBQ, got to have one of those on the front lawn


125 posted on 01/18/2005 6:57:38 AM PST by newfrpr04
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To: newfrpr04

LOL! How could I forget that???


126 posted on 01/18/2005 7:00:16 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: cyncooper
then defends the low attendance that is much less than the rates after the opening of the Reagan and Bush 41 libraries, as "harder to get to".

ED is an idiot, the klintoon library and massage parlor sits beside I-30, and a couple miles from I-40, which is one of the most heavily traveled Interstates in the country.

127 posted on 01/18/2005 7:08:47 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: mariabush
PS It is very close to the airport and right under the flight path.

Not exactly under the flight path.

128 posted on 01/18/2005 7:10:36 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: TheSarce
Clinton's "Center" evokes a sense of hiding from the world (all the obstructed sightlines, it was amazing) and over-reaching and self-important facades with no substance beneath.

In other words, it perfectly evokes its subject.

129 posted on 01/18/2005 7:11:09 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: NRA1995

Too bad....So sad......HA HA..............No more money to steal by the Clintons.


130 posted on 01/18/2005 7:12:15 AM PST by freekitty
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To: Fresh Wind
It's little things like this that give you incentive to stay healthy and take care of yourself so that you are sure to outlive the bastard.

I'm torn. I want him to live to be 120 -- spending decade after decade living with history's verdict....

131 posted on 01/18/2005 7:17:34 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: freekitty
They could triple their attendance if they would put his picture in the Urinals!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

132 posted on 01/18/2005 7:20:01 AM PST by bray (The Rather-hate Scandal was to support Michael Maroon's Fraudumentary!)
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To: NRA1995

We have already seen the stained dress on National Television, why would we travel to Arkansas to see it again?


133 posted on 01/18/2005 7:24:03 AM PST by corlorde (Without the home of the brave, there would be no land of the free)
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To: mewzilla

The Big trailer in the sky. How classless.


134 posted on 01/18/2005 7:36:57 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens)
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To: YoungBlackRepublican

pictures are too much.


135 posted on 01/18/2005 7:38:33 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens)
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To: .45MAN

aren't double-wide trailers fire traps.....who wants to go up in flames trapped with the buffoon's momentos......euowwwwwww. not me.


136 posted on 01/18/2005 9:48:22 AM PST by tioga
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To: cajungirl

Cross the bridge and there it is on a slope overlooking the river.
My Brother in law has a weekend home on the Suwannee river near Chiefland Florida. To get to his place you have to pass a 60 foot long trailer that is 12 feet wide and it is up about 15 feet high off the ground so as not to get flooded during rainy season. On pilings.
Looks nearly the same except that clintons place has better groundskeeping but still looks like a mobile home in the sky.

Also if an honest audit were ever able, you know that the clintoons pocketed a good deal of this.

Probably could have done the same project for about $50,000
using a used trailer and getting the deal they got from the city for the land.


137 posted on 01/18/2005 2:03:37 PM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: mariabush
"We can thank all of those stupid Republicans who voted for Ross Perot for giving us William the Zipper."

thankyou.....

its not that I was in love with either Bushs' or Dole, but the Cartoon traitor was/is just plain evil......

138 posted on 01/18/2005 2:12:32 PM PST by cherry
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To: cherry

You got it!! EVIL


139 posted on 01/18/2005 4:26:33 PM PST by Coldwater Creek ('We voted like we prayed")
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