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<blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 258597" data-attributes="member: 3373">From what I'm reading someone has the wrong idea of a Presidential Library. The ones I have been too aren't libraries in the sense of what your school or public library is. I would class them more as a museum or a history of that president's life. I find them extremely interesting to visit and read and see in detail what that president did besides just being a president.Yes, $50 million is a lot to spend and I'm not sure if it will ever pay for itself. It wasn't long ago that there was a bill to change the nickname of the state to &quot;Roughrider State&quot; in honor of President Roosevelt. Didn't pass but it's quite common to claim this former president as one of our own based on the time he spent in the state and his claim that this state made him what he eventually became. What better place to have his library/museum.There can be some argument of taxpayer's money. More precisely the money in the Legacy Fund is &quot;oil money.&quot; Not collected from individual taxpayers in the form of income tax or sales tax or property tax. A person could argue that the money could be used to reduce one of the aforementioned taxes but it was not collected from most taxpayers, only from the oil companies.I expect to get blasted for my beliefs on this matter but do have to emphasis that I am one who finds presidential libraries as very interesting. I say &quot;Bully&quot; for building this in ND.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retired Educator, post: 258597, member: 3373"] From what I'm reading someone has the wrong idea of a Presidential Library. The ones I have been too aren't libraries in the sense of what your school or public library is. I would class them more as a museum or a history of that president's life. I find them extremely interesting to visit and read and see in detail what that president did besides just being a president. Yes, $50 million is a lot to spend and I'm not sure if it will ever pay for itself. It wasn't long ago that there was a bill to change the nickname of the state to "Roughrider State" in honor of President Roosevelt. Didn't pass but it's quite common to claim this former president as one of our own based on the time he spent in the state and his claim that this state made him what he eventually became. What better place to have his library/museum. There can be some argument of taxpayer's money. More precisely the money in the Legacy Fund is "oil money." Not collected from individual taxpayers in the form of income tax or sales tax or property tax. A person could argue that the money could be used to reduce one of the aforementioned taxes but it was not collected from most taxpayers, only from the oil companies. I expect to get blasted for my beliefs on this matter but do have to emphasis that I am one who finds presidential libraries as very interesting. I say "Bully" for building this in ND. [/QUOTE]

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