American Journey 2020

Americans, We Are: Clinton Library

Posted on by desiree michael
Clinton Library
26
Sep

Have you ever wondered why Presidents get libraries named after them? Well, in our transition from horses to horsepower, we did some sightseeing around Little Rock and visited the grounds of President Clinton’s library.

Spike below the flags of the Clinton library

This is what we learned about President libraries:

  • Correction: 1939 – the first presidential library opens for President Roosevelt.
  • 1962 – the earliest president on the list of presidential libraries, received his library post-mortem. It was opened for President Herbert Hoover in Iowa in 1962.
  • Barack Obama has the only completely digital-documentation Presidential library with hard copies of important documents held elsewhere. His library is in Chicago.
  • Correction: The most expensive library to date is a bit dubious based upon final costs, thus, President Obama’s privately funded library is currently topping $500 million.

Follow Spike’s paw-prints to Arkansas. It is worth the journey. The evening visit was fascinating as a light show and a very serene place to take a balmy southern-evening stroll.

Spike in front of the Clinton library
Moonlight visit to Clinton Library, Arkansas: Spike left his footprint!

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This summer, the Mike and Spike, Spike and Mike roadshow will cross America and connect with people and places that make this country distinctly American. 
Horses will be the animal theme that draw us to the locations of states across America as they were historically the lead animal for transport…(Sure Spike, we won’t forget to visit dogs and create a signature print!). As we travel, the horse theme will transition to horsepower! Horsepower, of course, is now our primary means of seeing our country.
The subsequent theme is sand--yes, sand. Why sand? We will travel from “sea to shining sea” and collect sand from each shore; from the shores of the Assateague Island to the Coronado Islands, and the sand dunes in between. And, actually, these locations used to be called “seas.”