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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: NRA1995

Onward and downward! "Great" turnout, IMO. Bet the Carter liebrary doesn't do much either.


21 posted on 01/18/2005 3:07:48 AM PST by Waco
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To: NRA1995

However early reports claiming that over 100,000 had visited in just the first six weeks have turned out to be bogus. Well, imagine that! Would anyone on the left actually inflate the numbers just to make Clintoon look good? Nooooo.


22 posted on 01/18/2005 3:13:36 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: .45MAN
You just can't getthat many people into a double-wide....

If I'm not mistaken, its a single wide. Looks like it anyway.

23 posted on 01/18/2005 3:15:35 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: beckysueb

How bout the grand opening day where it rained so hard everyone had umbrellas up so no one could see the podium. ONe bad omen after another. Bill, we feel your pain and enjoy every minute of it.


24 posted on 01/18/2005 3:18:21 AM PST by doosee
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
The library is a failure and always will be.

SWEET!

25 posted on 01/18/2005 3:19:15 AM PST by Pusterfuss (You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. LBJ)
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To: doosee

What I would like to know is how many people visited the Bush Library in Houston during the same period. I bet the numbers are higher, because Bush 41 has risen in the public's esteem over the last 12 years.


26 posted on 01/18/2005 3:20:42 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: DooDahhhh

Don't forget his pet he neglects to keep on a leash raids and trashes the WH and AirForce I upon leaving.


27 posted on 01/18/2005 3:21:02 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: NRA1995
Click here to see how AP allowed itself to be suckered by the Clinton Foundation. From the link:

The Clinton Foundation welcomed the 100,000th visitor to the Clinton Presidential Center on Monday, just six weeks after the center opened.

Karen Gosby of DeSoto, Texas, was stunned when television cameras turned on her and she was announced to a packed lobby as the 100,000th visitor to the library and museum.

Guess it depends on the definition of visitor, eh?

28 posted on 01/18/2005 3:23:07 AM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: TomSmedley

"Damn it, Hillary, I thought sure this would bring 'em in."

29 posted on 01/18/2005 3:23:37 AM PST by Liz (Wise men are instructed by reason; lesser men, by experience; the ignorant, by necessity. Cicero)
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To: NRA1995
Clinton Library Attendance Disappointing

so....Clinton's entire presidency was not only disappointing...but an embarrassment...and a whole country had to suffer. boo-hoo to to dismal attendance counts.

30 posted on 01/18/2005 3:25:16 AM PST by ZinGirl
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To: beckysueb

Yep, and sitting on stacked concrete blocks.

The Clintons will never lose their transient-trailer park image or behavior.


31 posted on 01/18/2005 3:29:07 AM PST by Inge_CAV ("Tootsunami", a tidal wave in Hillary's bath water.)
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To: NRA1995

It's your own fault Billy...you should have advertised it as Bill's Bordello and everyone would have come to see it...but to drive all that way to see a library that takes you seriously???....Get real!


32 posted on 01/18/2005 3:30:45 AM PST by Route101
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To: NRA1995

Despite impeachment, ex-42 continues to enjoy approval ratings of 157%.


33 posted on 01/18/2005 3:31:39 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: NRA1995

Maybe if they got a liquor license...


34 posted on 01/18/2005 3:34:04 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl
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To: ZinGirl

Bad attendance can only be attributed to one thing, racism. This must be attendance suppression at its worst. Minorities are given wrong directions, told the museum is closed, that proof of purchase of Colt 45 Malt wont get you in. Looks like another investigation on the way from the NAACP. Oops, sorry, I was just reading Jesse Jackson's mind for a second.


35 posted on 01/18/2005 3:34:14 AM PST by doosee
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To: YoungBlackRepublican
all it needed was a few empty coors light beer cans on the front steps....

That will be taken care of in due time, as the bums homeless drift back into the area, and take up residence under the "trailer to the 21st century".

36 posted on 01/18/2005 3:34:39 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Where does bandwidth go when it is wasted?)
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To: metesky

Hmm, that is down from 349.945726%!


37 posted on 01/18/2005 3:35:52 AM PST by HMFIC (The Peace Symbol is the FOOTPRINT of the American CHICKEN!)
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To: metesky
LOL!

Even the local FOX affiliate got suckered. Click here. And this howler from the link:

"I don't know why people call it a glorified trailer," Cantrell said. "With all this stainless steel, marble and glass, it's more like a space module. And not many places are lucky enough to have a river like this."

38 posted on 01/18/2005 3:36:29 AM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: beckysueb
Don't forget his pet he neglects to keep on a leash raids and trashes the WH and AirForce I upon leaving.

Buddy made off with the silverware, while Socks pried all the 'W''s off the keyboards. Still, they were the best Clintons in the White House.

39 posted on 01/18/2005 3:37:11 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl
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To: NRA1995
...that the city of Little Rock would become a tourist mecca.

Wow, someone was pouring the Grape Kool Aid fast and furious at the city council meeting to get someone to believe that fairy tale

They should just go ahead and turn it into a real porn shop to recoup their money

40 posted on 01/18/2005 3:38:11 AM PST by Popman
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