The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library Is GORGEOUS ***PICS***

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[amandae]

1. Wow!!

I need to visit there while we live so close to Arkansas!! Thank you for the pics!! It looks wonderful :)!

:hi:

[eataTREE]

2. Beautiful.

I'll have to visit someday (I've been to Little Rock, but not recently). My favourite Presidential museum is the FDR estate in Hyde Park.

[GiovanniC]

3. Absolutely Stunning

That's impressive.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Beautiful!!!

:kick:

[madmax]

5. Wow!!!! These are great pics. n/t

[buff2]

6. That is beautiful.....

I'm going there next summer for sure. Poor little dim son will have a library about the size of an outside shithouse.....no real accomplishments,no brain,nothing to brag about. Just endless chaos and phuck-ups... Heh,Heh.... :evilgrin:

[Warpy]

7. Very classy!

Quite a contrast with this: "The pièce de résistance, both decoratively and symbolically, will be a carved bed canopy in the shape of a crown. It too has been sent for gilding. When affixed to the ceiling, the crown will support yards of regal purple satin over white lace, both trailing to the floor..."


http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00001213.htm

Pickles should stick to reading, smoking and admiring.

[Placebo]

9. Oh my god...

she really must think her husband is King!

Or is it the Oil Executive donors to his campaign that stay in the Lincoln Bedroom that are King?

But the President is an Oil Executive too!

Oh this is so confusing...:crazy:

[Killarney]

8. Cool! Thanks for posting.

[Sparkle]

10. Can't wait to visit his Library!

And it'll be my first time in Arkansas. Do you think they'll let me visit his private apartment above the library? I just want to drop in and say hi.:-)

[Hamlette]

11. My God! He's got a Chihuly!

http://www.chihuly.com/

[madmax]

13. Yes, but who's going to dust it!

:evilgrin:

[MsUSA]

12. Wow! Such a dignified place, kinda like him eh?

Thanks for posting the pictures, they're awesome!

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Been watching it grow as I pass through Little Rock

on my way to Kentucky from Texas (several times in the past year).

Hopefully next trip up I will have time to stop and take the tour

[jocal]

15. Clinton is truly Elvis reincarnate

I understand that it is supposed to resemble a guitar fret board. Cool!

President Clinton has nicely handled the jokes likening it to a mobile home, the Star Wars diner, and a space shuttle pod. He jokingly called it "a glorified house trailer" and said, "That's me. I'm a little red and a little blue."

He's still got the "touch".

jocal

[Placebo]

17. I saw him make that joke...

CNN showed it.

Hilarious. :D

[Inland]

16. Read glowing review by architecture critic Blair Kamin

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-041114clintonlibrary-story,1,1570975.story

The pharaohs had the Pyramids. America's rulers, as biographer Robert Caro once observed, have the presidential libraries.

The styles of these shrines run the gamut, from comfy vernacular (Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, N.Y.) to mausoleum modern (Lyndon B. Johnson in Austin, Texas). For years, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, its dark prism of glass set against a chalk-white tower, has been the most architecturally ambitious, a monument with a capital "M" that looked as imposing and indestructible as the Pyramids.

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, which will be dedicated here Thursday, offers a bracingly different model: a bridgelike building that shoots into space, simultaneously striking up a conversation with an old railroad bridge beside it and evoking Clinton's metaphorical "Bridge to the 21st Century." The design suggests possibility, not finality; motion, not repose; transparency, not impenetrability. Its upbeat modernity seems wholly appropriate for a president whose tenure witnessed the emergence of key aspects of contemporary life, from widespread computer use to a full-fledged global economy.

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18. "The design suggests possibility, not finality;...

motion, not repose; transparency, not impenetrability."

What a great quote, my thoughts exactly.

[Inland]

19. Clinton made a joke, perfect really,

about the design in a speech, saying some saw it as a bridge to the future, others as a trailer, and that he thought that was perfect, since he was "a little bit blue AND a little bit red." Leave it to Clinton to say the perfect thing that not only shows the right wing radio to have no class (they were snorting in derision over the trailer comment) but actually calls for national unity.

[Menshevik]

20. much much better than the reagan library!!!

:)

[ElementaryPenguin]

21. A fitting tribute to a man who well may be our LAST elected president!

[Butterflies]

22. Did that anti-Clinton museum ever get built?

I remember reading that a bunch of wingnuts were trying to raise the money to build a museum near Clinton's Library in Little Rock that "exposed the truths of the Clinton administration" - which means it's purpose is to trash Bill Clinton. I was hoping the plan wouldn't be supported because it's a destructive idea for our country. Those people have no class.

[quiet.american]

23. AWESOME!!!

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