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A Socks the Cat doll that meows could show up in a stocking stuffed by Bill Clinton this year. Thousands of people from around the world - including the former president himself - have spent more than $400,000 at the Clinton Museum Store since it opened Nov. 15. Clinton placed a phone order from Chappaqua, N.Y., on Thursday, calling museum store manager Connie Fails to order, among other things, Air Force One toys that emit the sound of plane engines when squeezed, neckties, stuffed donkeys and a Socks the Cat doll that says ``meow.'' Clinton also bought a commemorative Clinton...

To tree or not to tree? King County libraries continue to wrestle with the question, after administrators nearly banned Christmas trees in library branches late last month. Library officials said they just wanted to be sensitive to patrons who don't celebrate Christmas. ``While (King County Library System) does strive to be the `heart of the community,' the reality is that many of our patrons simply do not celebrate Christmas,'' said a memo from a team of library system administrators, approved by director Bill Ptacek. ``Christmas trees are such a large dominating presence within the library that they make it difficult...

What will our soreheads do when every obstacle to happiness is removed, every slight is avenged, every rough place is made smooth and every unpleasant fact erased from our history books? We may soon find out. The job is just about finished. We're down now to mopping up the trivial stuff. A school administrator in Cupertino, Calif., banished the Declaration of Independence from the curriculum because its references to God might damage the psyches of aspiring little atheists in junior high civics classes. A little learning can be a dangerous thing, so we must impart as little l

As I was struggling with my latest musical composition, "Variations on a Phrase From Joe Walsh's Guitar Solo in 'Hotel California,'" it occurred to me that, just as they don't make guitar players like Joe Walsh any more, they don't make politicians like Bill Clinton any more. Joe Walsh is perhaps as famous to those in the know for his cocaine-fueled antics and for his desperate attempts to curtail his seriously over-the-top ingestion of Bolivian Marching Powder — he once hired a bodyguard whose sole responsibility was to make sure that Joe didn't get his hands on the White Lady...

Bill’s library is launching pad for Hillary By DICK MORRIS Syndicated Columnist Last week’s events in Little Rock had less to do with a library retrospective of the Bill Clinton years than a campaign launch for the prospective presidency of Hillary Clinton. Doubt it? Then why was it Hillary, not Bill, who appeared on all the talk shows? It’s his library. But it’s her candidacy. So she did all the softball TV interviews, not him — reminding voters of her availability for 2008 while seeming to talk about the ’90s. The timing is perfect: Democrats demoralized by John Kerry’s defeat...

The cold, rainy conditions during the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center on Nov. 18 didn’t dampen the impact of the week-long celebration, according to figures released Thursday. "I think the week exceeded expectations," said Skip Rutherford, president of the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. "Monday through Wednesday and Friday and Saturday were great days for Little Rock and Arkansas," Rutherford said. "Thursday, with the presidents and the first ladies coming together in a bipartisanship show of support, was a great day for America." Although predictions call for near record levels of hotel and restaurant tax revenue, figures...

Elusive building, like the man Tuesday, Nov 23, 2004 By John Brummett I agree with Hillary Clinton when she says her husband's new presidential library in Little Rock reflects him perfectly. But I see it and him differently from the way she sees them. She says the structure represents Bill in that it is open, expansive and full of light. She's correct as far as that goes. But the library mirrors him in a more substantive way: What you make of it depends on your angle. From the Interstate 30 bridge over the Arkansas River the structure looks for all...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Nov. 23 - That legendary sign "The Buck Stops Here" gets prominent display at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, along with a cautionary disclaimer that it is "unclear how long it sat" on Truman's Oval Office desk. But the sign, and its appearance here, provide a bracing contrast to the sensations inspired by the new William J. Clinton Presidential Center, 400 miles away in Little Rock, Ark. Some similarities might be expected. Both William Jefferson Clinton and Harry S. Truman were Democratic presidents sometimes facing hostile Republican-dominated Congresses; both were born without inheritance or distinguished lineage; both...

Radio giant Rush Limbaugh calls it "The Clinton Library and Massage Parlor". But the $165 million dollar facility Americans will be able to tour without admittance fees this Thanksgiving weekend, is according to prolific Internet bloggers a "Tower of Tacky". The mainline media has been lofty in its descriptions of a "futuristic glass-paneled rectangle cantilevered over the banks of the Arkansas River, evoking Mr. Clinton’s metaphoric `Bridge to the 21st Century’." Try as they might, media elites can’t drown out the voices of the bloggers who have brought the vaunted library into the realm of trailer trash. "It sure looks...

BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun November 22, 2004 LITTLE ROCK, ARK. - President Clinton's new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen. The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week. Democrats spent much of the presidential campaign this year accusing President Bush of improperly close ties to Saudi Arabia. The case was made...

Stacks of chronically overdue library books may soon land some readers in Bay County, Mich., more than just a 10-cent-a-day fine. Frustrated librarians are proposing a crackdown on the worst offenders that could include criminal charges and up to 90 days in jail. "We want to go after some of the people who owe us a lot of money," Frederick J. Paffhausen, the library's system director, told The Bay City Times (search) for a story Thursday. "We want to set an example." Paffhausen, who took over as director in October, is asking the Bay County Library Board for permission to...

Clinton Library Opens with First Ever Adult Section 11/18/04 LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas Bill Clinton's presidential library opened in Little Rock today with an unprecedented addition--an adult section complete with a metal gate and a red neon "Adults Only" sign. "Mr. Clinton isn't satisfied being just another ex-president," explained library director David Alsobrook. "He wants to be the XXX president, and this exhibit goes a long way towards achieving that goal." At the center of the adult section is a re-creation of the Oval Office complete with an empty pizza box, a pair of knee pads, and a cigar humidor. The...

The new Monica Display at the Clinton Library

A caller to the Laura Ingraham show Thurs. night who was at the "big event" said he is an inspector in training and pointed out several violations of the ADA Among them, crash bars on the doors are not at wheelchair height, there were no wheelchair accesible drinking fountains, and the front ramp going to the entrance was dangerously slippery due to the rain.He mentioned a few more, but is there some exemption the the library falls under?

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Bill Clinton (news - web sites), America's first baby boomer president, opened his library Thursday with a rock 'n' roll gala that hailed the $165 million glass-and-steel museum as "a gift to the future by a man who always believed in the future." AP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Clinton Library Opening Despite a steady, bone-chilling rain, nearly 30,000 people joined a celebration that included tributes from President Bush (news - web sites), his father and former President Carter. Rock stars Bono and The Edge of the band U2 performed a three-song set before Clinton spoke to...

In honor of the first Democrat to win two terms as president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, members of many of the nation's past and present first families celebrated the life and political talents of Bill Clinton on Thursday as they dedicated his library here in a chilly, rain-drenched ceremony on the banks of the Arkansas River. "Welcome to my rainy library dedication," a hatless Mr. Clinton said somewhat wistfully to a crowd of 30,000, most of them hidden under umbrellas. Bucking himself up, he said his late mother would have reminded him that "rain is liquid sunshine." The ceremony, held...

Sean announced at the end of his radio show today that John LeBoutillier - director of the Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock, AR - will be a guest on tonight's Hannity & Colmes (FNC, 9pm and 2am ET) - Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. Other guests on tonight's H&C include Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott and former Nebraska Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey.

Bill Clinton's newly opening library is in denial, which is not the same as saying there's no reason to clap your hands about the place, including its 80 million items soon to be available to scholars and a terrific quote taken from Clinton's first inaugural. "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America," the quote says, according to a news account that tells us that it is found at the start of a timeline of the Clinton presidency. The words have the virtue of speaking truth and of calling us to our...