[Wally_Kalbacken]

I'm waiting for a President who declares his/her "presidential library" will be a virtual one and that he/she will not tap the treasury to build a brick and mortar monument to hold paper copies of millions of pages very few people will ever care to read.

[El Gato]

I'm waiting for a President who declares his/her "presidential library" will be a virtual one and that he/she will not tap the treasury to build a brick and mortar monument

The "Brick and Mortar" of Presidential Libraries is generally privately funded. Some of the expenses of setting up the repository and maintaining it are federally funded, AFAIK.

[Fiji Hill]

I'm waiting for a President who declares his/her "presidential library" will be a virtual one and that he/she will not tap the treasury to build a brick and mortar monument to hold paper copies of millions of pages very few people will ever care to read.

Richard Nixon mandated that his library be built and maintained with no public funds whatsoever. However, by law, the papers of all presidents from Nixon onward are held by the National Archives. The Nixon Library currently holds many of Nixon's pre-presidential papers and all of his post-presidential ones, but in order to get the presidential papers, it had to agree to join the National Archives system. The presidential papers will probably begin arriving at the library sometime this year.