Today's Washington Post runs an AP story on the newest wrinkle at the Clinton library: a device ($3, please) that lets you hear the ex-Pres's thoughts as you amble through the rooms of the library. Then the report adds:
The library, along the Arkansas River in downtown Little Rock, will begin offering the audio tour Saturday. The tour was Clinton's idea and is the first narrated by a former president for a presidential library, said Jordan Johnson, spokesman for the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Wrong. Though it was privately managed at the time I visited it, the Nixon Library offered a tour of Nixon's birthplace in Yorba Linda, with typically Nixonian narration available to all for free. Example: in the living room of the tiny house, discussing the piano he once played, Nixon mused: "I often thought, if I'd been born at another time, I just might be a rapper." True story.
