Ronald Reagan Library Can't Locate 80,000 Items

Fox News ^ | November 08, 2007 | Unknown

[decimon]

WASHINGTON — The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library cannot account for the whereabouts of tens of thousands of artifacts relating to the country's 40th president, FOX News has confirmed.

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The audit of all 12 presidential libraries found that the Reagan Library couldn't locate more than 80,000 pieces of the collection, out of roughly 100,000 items.

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[decimon]

My math may be weak but 80,000 out or 100,000 seems to be 80 percent.

[Old Sarge]

Check the Clinton Library, maybe?

[Publius]

They’re over at my house. But I swear I paid for them.

[Clock King]

Paging Sandy Berger....

[mkmensinger]

Where’s Sandy Burglar?

[Romneyfor President2008]

Aw frack, I even donated to this place. :(

[mkmensinger]

Great minds etc... :^)

[decimon]

Has Sandy been seen in really baggy pants? :-)

[decimon]

Aw frack, I even donated to this place. :(

A letter expressing displeasure with their stewardship of the library may be in order.

[redhead]

Anybody seen Sandy Burgl... er, Burger around the Reagan library?

[William Tell]

Statistical methods are very effective when applied to a population of 100,000 items.

It's really very simple to generate a list of one or two hundred items randomly from the records of the entire collection. One then locates each of the randomly selected items. The fraction of items not found will very closely match the fraction of the entire collection that is missing.

Such a procedure is SO EASY that any director of such a library collection is guilty of criminal negligence not to have carried out such a process at least annually.

To identify the criminals in this case, one need only examine the records of the library to determine which directors carried out such a process and which didn't. The breach of trust in this case appears to be quite astounding.

[Gator101]

Where’s Sandy Burglar?

LOL...And in a completely unrelated story the Clinton Library recently discovered 80,000 items that purport to show how Bill Clinton's presidency saved the world from Communism.

[redhead]

(heh...) GMTA.

[COBOL2Java]

[William Tell]

Romneyfor President2008 said: "Aw frack, I even donated to this place. :("

Then you probably had a reasonable expectation that the caretakers of the library would carry out their duties in a manner which is consistent with preserving the value of the assets of the library. If they did not do so, then they have defrauded you. Sounds like you have a case to me.

[Red_Devil 232]

Gee! When 80% of your stuff goes missing, wouldn’t you think the room might seem empty even before it got to 80%?

[decimon]

Assuming we ever hear of this again, it will be interesting to see what is the fallout. Theft? Sloppy record keeping? Martians? Does anyone pay a price for whatever?

[mware]

Time to check e-bay.

[decimon]

Gee! When 80% of your stuff goes missing, wouldn’t you think the room might seem empty even before it got to 80%?

Yes, you would think so. I'm kinda doubting the figures are as they seem but it sounds bad in any case.

[SevenofNine]

Could be Looter guy