Posted on 01/18/2005 4:05:23 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
When it opened two months ago, Bill Clinton's presidential library was supposed to draw so many visitors that the city of Little Rock would become a tourist mecca.
However, early reports claiming that over 100,000 had visited in just the first six weeks have turned out to be bogus.
The National Archives and Records Administration, which operates the facility, tells U.S. News & World Report that only 42,054 paid to enter. The rest were guests of the former president and freebies to VIPs. Despite wall-to-wall television coverage of its opening, and a deluge of favorable press, attendance figures for the $162 million compound are even less than the attendance at the Reagan and Bush 41 libraries immediately after they opened.
"I thought it would be better," a disappointed Clinton told the magazine.
Who in their right mind would want to re-visit that disaster by trotting along to the Clinton Library? Answer: Not too many!
8 years of his lies was enough. No use re-living the bad memories all over again.
I agree.
I've had the opportunity to visit a few Presidential Libraries over the last ten years and by far, Clinton's doesn't even rate a blip on my radar screen...nor will it ever.
They can out that quote on his tombstone.
Ahh when the media hype doesn't reflect true reality. Within 5 years the LIE-brary will be asking the voters to bail it out!
Paid to enter? It's a public library isn't it, fer chrissakes? Don't remember an "admission fee" to the Reagan library...
They're mixing the number of visitors up with the 100,000 additional cops Clinton supposedly put on the streets.
Actually, that's how I felt about his presidency. (I knew it would be bad, but I didn't think it would be THAT bad.)
Actually, there is a fee at the Reagan Library. Not very much.
How much is admission to the Clinton Lie-berry? 25-cents a peep?
Flash forward two years from now and they'll be lucky to draw 42,000 a year unless, as Limbaugh suggests, they add a massage parlor and cigar stand.
Is this a joke?
It probably would have been smarter to put the library in San Francisco rather than Little Rock.
I've been to the Nixon, Reagan and Truman libraries, would definitely go see the Kennedy, Bush and Carter libraries, but I would not go to the Clinton Library, even if it were free.
25cents for 3 minutes
The scum bag must be seething over this.
The 42,000 that suppossedly paid for admissions were busload after busload of elementary school kids who went there under the education budget @ $12.50 a busload. We (taxpayers) are gonna pay to support this albatros.
Good one.
is that herpes on his upper lip?
No, that's his coke nose.
$3,852.19
(dividing $162 million by 42,054 visitors): Wow, expensive tickets- just to see a public record of sexual violence//treason/disgrace.
the difference is, all the other presidents faded away after they left office. the clintons refuse to do so. they are constantly on tv 4 years after leaving office. so there is no curiosity to draw anyone to the library..
media whores and in true clinton fashion...forcing themselves on the public.
Do visits from these critters count?
It will only get worse, and never get better. The majority of the American people know that Bill Clinton failed to protect America and was the enabler of 911. The Clinton library was a failure on its opening day, and will be a failure for all time.
And in Arkansas they may also double count attendees. When a husband and wife attend they count as four since they are each taking their cousin.
There is an admission fee to President Reagans library, also Nixons, and 41, and Kennedys, but they are very reasonable..President Kennedys was interesting until the very last when you exited the building... Bill Clinton was shown on closed circuit telling how he as a youth had shook hands with President Kennedy, ruined the whole visit to the library..
Don't forget a glory hole or 2...
He can't really believe folks would be breaking down the doors to revel in his hypocrisy.
What a loser.
The National Archives and Records Administration, which operates the facility, tells U.S. News & World Report that only 42,054 paid to enter.
When he (Clinton) dies, they had better have a urinal on that grave or we are going to have sanitation issues. I'll be in line, with a full bladder.
Very funny. You know, I'm constantly surprised that someone hasn't marketed a Clinton doll, much like the Mattel one where you pull a string at the back and it says a line or so. Can you imagine the dialog:
"Put some ice on it", or
"I never had sex with that woman", or
"It depends on what the meaning of the word is, is"
Joke shops could reap a fortune.
If I get a chance at a vacation, it will not be to go to Little Rock, Arkansas.
Well, it IS a library! Are we sure that Clinton voters really know how to read? : )
Quote from Markie Post, Babs Streisand, Monica....etc.
Im taking 3 weeks off this summer to go to Little Rock and see the Library/museum then I plan to hole up in the Super 8 Motel watch CNN and drink myself to oblivion.
When it opened two months ago, Bill Clinton's presidential library was supposed to draw so many visitors that the city of Little Rock would become a tourist mecca.
Is this a joke?
No, it's not a joke, really. They thought all the truck drivers on I-40 would stop in for sure
I'm not surprised attendance has been down. I'm sure Billy Boy ruined all the good magazines. [ba dum bum!]
If Clinton would ever shut up and go away perhaps more people would realise he's the FORMER president.
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