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Popularity of Clinton, Reagan, pave way for new stamp
Belleville.com ^ | 8/04/05 | DAVID HAMMER

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bill; bubba; clinton; impeached; impeachedx42; new; pave; popularity; presidents; reagan; ronald; sinkemperor; stamp; usps; way
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To: writer33

Yeah, it was dam rude : )


21 posted on 08/04/2005 6:23:32 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Libloather

ROTFLMAO


22 posted on 08/04/2005 6:24:22 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; ladyinred
And gee whiz, buy the guy some over the calf socks already. Like we really need a "leg shot" of Bill Clinton. Is he just trying to remind us his legs are better than Hillary's?

I guess it could be worse, though. In Bill Clinton's history of flashing body parts, legs are probably among the more harmless choices.

23 posted on 08/04/2005 6:37:00 PM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: KarlInOhio

'Had a hard time using one set of Bubba stamps -- they were sticky all over...


24 posted on 08/04/2005 6:48:48 PM PDT by mikrofon (Original issue)
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To: international american; Libloather

Libloather is rude!

:)


25 posted on 08/04/2005 7:20:35 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33; Libloather

Yeah, but I gotz a problem gittin mad at anybody with the handle of Libloather : )


26 posted on 08/04/2005 7:25:14 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Seeking the truth
Here's a "priceless" stamp...

Here's the site...
http://0cents.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT

27 posted on 08/04/2005 7:26:33 PM PDT by mcmuffin (DemocRATs- Rotting from the inside out.)
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To: international american; Libloather
Yeah, but I gotz a problem gittin mad at anybody with the handle of Libloather

You have a problem, because you're a fascist like he is. Both with closed minds on progressive ideas. How do both of you live with yourselves?

:)

28 posted on 08/04/2005 7:28:18 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

" How do both of you live with yourselves?

:)


Oh, just fine, thank you.


29 posted on 08/04/2005 7:30:30 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: international american

It must be an awful sheltered life of listening to Limbaugh every day to get your marching orders. Wouldn't it be nice if you actually thought for yourself?

You know...that Second Amendment thingy? The right to free thinking.

:)


30 posted on 08/04/2005 7:31:48 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

Hi my names Mike Tyson, and we don't need no twee huggers, an an no envi w...envi...environmembalist wackos, and none o them NOW crowd peoples.

And here he is.....

R U S H L I M B O !!!!


31 posted on 08/04/2005 7:55:22 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Libloather
NANO-PRESIDENT, MEGA-DISASTER
history will not be kind to bill + hillary clinton


NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness of bill + hillary clinton


WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS
32 posted on 08/05/2005 9:34:28 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Libloather

That thing is seriously boring.


33 posted on 08/05/2005 9:35:22 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Just one more reason to hate the government....)
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