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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
That is just so stupid. A presidential library is not a "vanity project".
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i get the sense that part of the issue is that this actually wont be a presidential library. obama isnt even calling it one anymore. hes dubbed it a presidential "center". the fact there wont be physical archives means it wont be managed by the National Archives. that decision alone has been catching a lot of flack among historians and researchers. i remember one of the big points of excitement initially was the notion that all these researchers/authors/intellectuals would be coming from around the world to gain access to first hand documents, but it definitely seems like that wont be the case.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/a...istration.html
i wonder had it actually been managed by the National Archives if it would have potentially avoided some of these issues around privatization of parkland since itd be a public institution overseeing operations.
that said, they are intending to include a CPL branch inside, which further confuses things.