Off topic again - just so many things begging for comments this week.
It seems ironic that the least literary of our Presidents has built the largest library of all Presidential Libraries. It is on the campus of SMU in Dallas, Texas. The grounds cover 23 acres and include hundreds of trees and shrubs. Molly Ivins would be pleased! Entrance to museum and library is shown above with an armed guard in place. A few facts highlighted in the news this week.
The new W library will house 80 terabytes of digital data - thus, explaining why the facility had to be so large. It is possible that the number of real, old fashioned books eventually may exceed 100.
It is the first LEED certified Presidential Library - seems ironic for such an environmentally hostile administration (grounds are shown below). It is rumored that when serious trimming efforts are needed on the grounds that Bush will drive his huge pickup, with chain saw, up to SMU. Some pundits are now speculating that W was really a closet greenie.
There are now 13 Presidential Libraries.
Least popular last year (ranked as per number of visitors) was that of Herbert Hoover (below - located in Westbranch, Iowa). The most popular was that of William Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas. So it goes.
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