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Clinton Haters Look to Mock His Library (Waaahhh)
AP Politics ^ | Tue Jul 22,12:24 PM ET | DAVID HAMMER

Posted on 07/22/2003 1:07:13 PM PDT by Lance Romance

Clinton Haters Look to Mock His Library
Tue Jul 22,12:24 PM ET
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By DAVID HAMMER, Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton 's $160 million presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency.

 

"As long as he's talking, we'll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from rewriting history," says John LeBoutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York who rode Ronald Reagan 's coattails to victory in 1980.

LeBoutillier and his partner, Houston businessman Richard Erickson, plan to call it the Counter-Clinton Library. They say the museum here and one planned for Washington will look at such topics as Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the last-minute pardons, even damaged White House furniture.

"We already hear he's going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president," LeBoutillier says. "And we'll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him."

The two partners hope to open their place the same day that Clinton's opens in November 2004. They say they will need $5 million. LeBoutillier says thousands of donations have come in and the average one is $72, but he will not say exactly how much has been raised so far.

Dick Morris, the Clinton strategist who resigned in a sex scandal, has pledged stacks of his insider documents, as has Gary Aldrich, the former FBI agent who wrote a best seller about Clinton's scandals.

"We think people will want to come out of the Clinton Library and head immediately down the street to us to get the rest of the story," LeBoutillier says.

In recent appearances, Clinton said that the big picture of his presidency is being obscured and that his library will set the record straight.

The designer of the Clinton museum, Ralph Appelbaum, said the place will deal with Clinton's impeachment, but will focus on how Clinton policies smoothed the political and technological transition into the 21st century and fostered unprecedented economic growth.

LeBoutillier — who once called the late House Speaker Tip O'Neill "fat, bloated and out of control, just like the federal budget" — says Clinton's library will require immediate rebuttal in a way that libraries of other scandalized ex-presidents do not.

"Reagan, Nixon, that's the past," he says. "The problem is Clinton's still young, he's the most powerful force in Democratic politics, and he would like nothing more than to erase the past so he can return to the White House with Hillary."

Skip Rutherford, president of the foundation paying for Clinton's library, says he had hoped for a political cease-fire.

"The haters don't have to like or agree with Clinton, but they need to acknowledge that only 43 men have done this — reached the pinnacle," he says. "I think they need to move on with their lives."


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Will the semen stained dress be a part of the Clinton Library? How about Vince Foster's suicide note?
1 posted on 07/22/2003 1:07:13 PM PDT by Lance Romance
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To: Lance Romance
How about photos of the White House teas with agents of the Chinese government?
2 posted on 07/22/2003 1:09:13 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Well....there you go again.")
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To: Lance Romance
I had the pleasure of meeting the Counter-Clinton Library folks at CPAC this year.
3 posted on 07/22/2003 1:09:57 PM PDT by sauropod ("Come over here and make me. I dare you. You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake.")
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To: Lance Romance

4 posted on 07/22/2003 1:09:57 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Lance Romance

The exhibit will also include a full-scale replica of the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room where visitors can pretend to engage spin control, plan diversions such as bombing aspiring factories, smear Monica and plan Lincoln bedroom fundraisers.
5 posted on 07/22/2003 1:10:11 PM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: doug from upland
ping!
6 posted on 07/22/2003 1:11:02 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Lance Romance
The kneepadder who wrote this article has never heard of Bush- or Reagan-haters, has he?
8 posted on 07/22/2003 1:11:29 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Lance Romance
Slick Willy brought all of it on himself.
9 posted on 07/22/2003 1:12:18 PM PDT by b4its2late (I am a partisan. Part right and the other part right.)
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To: finnman69

The exhibit space is 20,000 square feet on two levels. A 110-foot-long Timeline presents a substantive history of the day to day work of the President and his administration utilizing photographs, videos and interactive stations. In alcoves flanking the Timeline, a series of exhibits will highlight a range of domestic and foreign policy failures and exaggerations. Each story will be treated in depth and will include taxing the bejesus out of Americans, pandering to racist groups, illegal fundraising, unprecedented national security ineptitude, impeachment, and pardons for cash.
10 posted on 07/22/2003 1:13:11 PM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: Lance Romance
Or the cigar? or the desk? or the FBI Files?
11 posted on 07/22/2003 1:13:17 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: finnman69
Hey, as long as the Oval Office has enough head room under the desk.....
12 posted on 07/22/2003 1:13:25 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it.)
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To: Lance Romance
"a couple of Clinton haters"
No bias in reporting here. Fair and partial AP. Nothing to see here, move along.
13 posted on 07/22/2003 1:15:06 PM PDT by HRC
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To: Lance Romance
a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency.

If this were to happen near the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA....

Just a few blocks from Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace , a couple of concerned citizens hope to open a museum meant to give a balanced representation of his presidency.

14 posted on 07/22/2003 1:15:24 PM PDT by socal_parrot (Tip your server...)
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To: finnman69

The structure on top is what I guess to be a 3000 sf condo built tax free for him on top. I know its a guest apartment and comparing it in scale to the trailers nearby judge it to be HUGE.

15 posted on 07/22/2003 1:15:35 PM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: Lance Romance
Is it true that Hillary has a wing at the Clinton Liebrery? I heard that that they purchased 532,000 copies of her book for display there.

ML/NJ

16 posted on 07/22/2003 1:16:12 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Lance Romance
"Clinton Haters Look to Mock His Library"

Wow. That's actually the headline of the story. Way to wear it on your sleeve, AP!
17 posted on 07/22/2003 1:16:50 PM PDT by shadowman99
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To: b4its2late
Slick Willy brought all of it on himself.

Funny, that's what Bubba told Monica about her dress.

18 posted on 07/22/2003 1:17:34 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Lance Romance
Geez, this is an unabashed, fanatical hit piece. The AP should never have run this pile of trash.

This is an excellent example of the bigotry prevalent at The AP. I highly encourage all freepers to call the editors and comment on how vile this trash is.

AP National Desk: 212-621-1600

:/ ttt

19 posted on 07/22/2003 1:20:32 PM PDT by detsaoT (Socialism Is Bankruptcy - just ask Kalifornia (or The City Of Evil!))
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To: Paul Atreides
The only Presidential Library to have a fiction and non fiction section.
20 posted on 07/22/2003 1:22:31 PM PDT by Lee Heggy (Jealousy-The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.)
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