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 ...
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.
Thanks for the post. Ping me when you post the pics if it is not too much trouble!
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
and the old Webber BBQ, got to have one of those on the front lawn
LOL! How could I forget that???
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.
Not exactly under the flight path.
In other words, it perfectly evokes its subject.
Too bad....So sad......HA HA..............No more money to steal by the Clintons.
I'm torn. I want him to live to be 120 -- spending decade after decade living with history's verdict....
Pray for W and Our Troops
We have already seen the stained dress on National Television, why would we travel to Arkansas to see it again?
The Big trailer in the sky. How classless.
pictures are too much.
aren't double-wide trailers fire traps.....who wants to go up in flames trapped with the buffoon's momentos......euowwwwwww. not me.
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.
thankyou.....
its not that I was in love with either Bushs' or Dole, but the Cartoon traitor was/is just plain evil......
You got it!! EVIL
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