Posted on 08/04/2005 5:40:26 PM PDT by Libloather
Popularity of Clinton, Reagan, pave way for new stamp
DAVID HAMMER
Associated Press
Posted on Thu, Aug. 04, 2005
Former President Bill Clinton sits near a representation of the U.S. Postal Service's presidential library stamp Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005, during dedication ceremonies at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark. The design for the stamp was unveiled Thursday at each of the 12 presidential libraries and museums across the country. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
LITTLE ROCK, Lit. - The U.S. Postal Service's Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee received 50,000 suggestions for stamps every year and of all of them, a Little Rock man's idea to highlight presidential libraries won out.
A former advertising executive from Little Rock was instrumental in creating the U.S. Postal Service's presidential library stamps, which were unveiled Thursday at each of the 12 institutions across the country, including the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Mo.
Little Rock was the only ceremony attended by the archivist of the United States and by the former president whose library it honors. National Archives and Records Administration chief Allen Weinstein and former president Bill Clinton attended the Clinton Library for the stamp's unveiling.
Ron Robinson, retired chairman of marketing firm Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods and one of 15 members of the USPS' Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, was the primary shepherd for the presidential library theme.
"There had been so much work done to promote the Clinton Library and because the Reagan Library was so much in the spotlight after President Reagan's death, we felt now was the time," Robinson said.
Skip Rutherford, who works for Robinson's former firm and is also the president of Clinton's private foundation, said he and Robinson discussed the idea of a presidential library stamp before it reached the committee. They asked then-U.S. Archivist John Carlin to write a letter to the committee requesting the issuance.
Among the committee members are former Notre Dame basketball coach and current ESPN commentator Digger Phelps, actor Karl Malden and Harvard black studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Robinson said narrowing the themes down to 100 or so stamp issuances a year is a team effort.
No president's image will appear on the 37-cent stamps. By law, a person's likeness can't appear on a stamp until 10 years after his death, except a U.S. president can be honored with a stamp on the first birthday after his death. Reagan's stamp came out Feb. 9 at his library in Simi Valley, Calif.
There are 11 libraries in the National Archives system, with the private Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif., scheduled to join in 2006. Changes in the Nixon library and the transfer of federal records must still take place, but the stamp committee decided to include it.
Yeah, it was dam rude : )
ROTFLMAO
I guess it could be worse, though. In Bill Clinton's history of flashing body parts, legs are probably among the more harmless choices.
'Had a hard time using one set of Bubba stamps -- they were sticky all over...
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