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.
Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein, left, looks on as former President Bill Clinton laughs during ceremonies Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005, in Little Rock, Ark., introducing a U.S. Postal Service stamp that commemorates 50 years of presidential libraries. Dedication ceremonies took place Thursday at all 12 of the nation's presidential libraries and museums. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
It's not an authentic Clinton stamp, imo.
There IS no stain. :}
Good heavens, who dresses that guy? Is he colorblind? My eyes hurt.
I hope to enjoy my dinner going up half as much as I enjoyed it going down.
How about some FReeper designs for a Bubba Clinton stamp! ;^)
Clinton's stamp won't be available in the self-adhesive style - he wants you to have to lick it.
And if you dont lick it enough, wet it under the sink!
Nice tie. It's painful enough to look at that slug without that monstrosity. Too many brain cells dead from too much partying probably. Bubba will probably wind up like Ozzy Ozbourne, complete with reality show.
My Clinton stamps wouldn't stick. I keep spitting on the wrong side.
Why did you have to post this? There goes my evening.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040517&s=wiener
I was wondering whether this Weiner was in charge when Sandy Burglar went fishin....apparently not, because he was only recently appointed. But a google search sends me to 'the Nation' (feh!) and this article that states that in 2004, Bush and his father were afraid that Bush would lose the election, so they wanted Weiner in there to screen the records for bad info re: 9/11.
'Why, then, has the White House nominated a new archivist? Many speculate that George W. Bush, as well as his father, thinks the younger Bush may lose the election, and they want their man in control of their archives before that happens. The new archivist will deal with access to the papers of the 9/11 Commission after it closes up shop in August and with the release of the archives of the presidency of Bush Senior, which, under the Presidential Records Act, can be made public starting in 2005 (except, of course, for classified documents). These records include, for example, documents on Bush Senior's role in the Iran/contra scandal of the late 1980s, when he was Reagan's Vice President. And if Bush Junior does lose the election, the new archivist would have a third new task: appointing a director for the Bush Junior presidential archives. '
heh-heh, it never stops, and will keep going til there's no one left...
Ron Robinson is former chairman and chief executive officer of Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, a Little Rock marketing agency he joined in 1970 after working 11 years in journalism and as a public information officer. After spending five years as a sportswriter for the Arkansas Gazette, he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the U of A in 1965. In 1966, he studied public relations at the Boston University Graduate School of Public Communications. He is a charter member of the National Public Relations Network and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Advertising Federation. In 1989, the Advertising Federation presented him with its Distinguished Public Service Award for contributions to the communications community. In February 1995, Robinson was named "Business Executive of the Year" by Arkansas Business.
JOAN ADAMS MONDALE AND JAMES MIHO APPOINTED TO CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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WASHINGTON - Two new members have been named to the Postmaster General's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee: Joan Adams Mondale-whose tireless efforts to support the nation's cultural life during the Carter Administration earned her the unofficial title, "Joan of Art,"-and James Miho, award winning Graphic Designer and Photographer. Their appointments become effective April 2005.
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Ronald Allen Robinson (June 9, 1991 ) The first intern at Cranford Johnson Advertising Agency, Robinson is now president and a chief operating offcer of Cranford Johnson Robinson and Woods, the state's largest advertising agency. Now: Chairman and CEO Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods. "In December of 1992, I was promoted to chairman of the board and chief executive of ficer of Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods. In 1993, I was appointed to the U.S. Postal Service Citizens Stamps Advisory Committee. In 1994 my son, Reid, graduated from the U of A in Fayetteville and is now an area sales manager for Dillard's in Shreveport."
Perfect!!
I thought I saw a Clinton stamp when I was at the Post Office the other day. No, wait! It was a "Wanted" poster.
is that the archivist Weiner replaced John Carlin, the archivist that allowed Sandy Berger to take out the memos (at Clintoon's bidding, no doubt).
Must be one of those ties Monica bought him! :-)
That gif is deeply disturbing.
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