WEBVTT 00:09.042 --> 00:09.743 >> PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SET THE 00:09.743 --> 00:10.410 AREAS IN MOTION TO SELECT A 00:10.410 --> 00:11.612 LOCATION FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL 00:11.612 --> 00:11.945 LIBRARY. 00:11.945 --> 00:13.580 MAYOR EMANUEL HAS ANNOUNCED HE 00:13.580 --> 00:14.948 WANTS TO UNINEED CHICAGO BID TO 00:14.948 --> 00:16.149 GET IT. 00:16.149 --> 00:16.984 THIS IN THE FACE 00:16.984 --> 00:18.819 OF LIKELY 00:18.819 --> 00:19.553 COMPETITIONS FROM NEW YORK CITY 00:19.553 --> 00:20.621 AND THE STATE OF 00:20.621 --> 00:21.054 HAWAII. 00:21.054 --> 00:22.022 HOW DID PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES 00:22.022 --> 00:23.390 COME TO BE? 00:23.390 --> 00:24.458 >> WHAT EXACTLY DO THEY 00:24.458 --> 00:25.058 DO AND 00:25.058 --> 00:26.560 DOES CHICAGO REALLY HAVE 00:26.560 --> 00:27.194 THE 00:27.194 --> 00:27.661 INSIDE TRACK? 00:27.661 --> 00:29.062 HERE TO TALK 00:29.062 --> 00:29.663 ABOUT THE 00:29.663 --> 00:30.063 HISTORY 00:30.063 --> 00:31.331 ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES AND 00:31.331 --> 00:32.232 ASSESS THE 00:32.232 --> 00:33.300 CHANCES ARE MICHAEL 00:33.300 --> 00:34.635 ALLEN, A PROFESSOR OF 00:34.635 --> 00:35.602 HISTORY AT 00:35.602 --> 00:36.336 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND 00:36.336 --> 00:38.972 SPECIAL LIESES 00:38.972 --> 00:40.274 IZES 00:40.274 --> 00:42.309 IN 20th CENTURY 00:42.309 --> 00:44.178 MEMORY AND SCOTT 00:44.178 --> 00:44.511 WALTER, 00:44.511 --> 00:45.479 UNIVERSITY OF DePAUL 00:45.479 --> 00:47.047 UNIVERSITY. 00:47.047 --> 00:48.448 FIRST OF 00:48.448 --> 00:50.217 ALL, HOW 00:50.217 --> 00:50.717 DID 00:50.717 --> 00:51.418 PRESIDENTIAL UNIVERSITIES COME 00:51.418 --> 00:52.152 TO BE? 00:52.152 --> 00:53.887 >> THEY WERE 00:53.887 --> 00:55.422 CREATED BY FRANKLIN 00:55.422 --> 00:56.557 ROOSEVELT IN 00:56.557 --> 00:57.124 THE 1930'S 00:57.124 --> 00:57.958 AND HE 00:57.958 --> 01:00.360 THOUGHT HE WOULD CREATE A 01:00.360 --> 01:00.961 MONUMENT 01:00.961 --> 01:07.367 TO HIMSELF AND A 01:07.367 --> 01:08.635 WAREHOUSE FOR RECORDS. 01:08.635 --> 01:10.771 HE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE HIS 01:10.771 --> 01:16.643 PAPERSTIVE SEED UP 01:16.643 --> 01:22.516 TIVE 01:22.516 --> 01:22.850 DIVIED 01:22.850 --> 01:23.350 UP. 01:23.350 --> 01:24.651 HE WANTED TO CREATE 01:24.651 --> 01:25.152 A SHRINE TO 01:25.152 --> 01:26.820 HIS MEMORY BUT ALSO THEN 01:26.820 --> 01:27.654 DONATE 01:27.654 --> 01:28.288 THAT T 01:28.288 --> 01:29.456 O THE PUBLIC AND THE 01:29.456 --> 01:30.657 PUBLIC WOULD ASSUME THE 01:30.657 --> 01:31.124 COSTS 01:31.124 --> 01:33.427 AFTER IT WAS FILLED. 01:33.427 --> 01:34.394 >> THAT CONTINUED 01:34.394 --> 01:35.596 TO THE STATE, 01:35.596 --> 01:35.996 CORRECT? 01:35.996 --> 01:36.930 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 01:36.930 --> 01:37.264 THE. 01:37.264 --> 01:39.032 >> THE PRESIDENTS AND FRIENDS 01:39.032 --> 01:39.967 RAISED THE 01:39.967 --> 01:41.068 MONEY FROM PRIVATE 01:41.068 --> 01:42.369 SOURCES AND 01:42.369 --> 01:43.036 DONORS AND 01:43.036 --> 01:44.238 THE 01:44.238 --> 01:44.872 GOVERNMENT 01:44.872 --> 01:51.812 TAKES RESPONSIBILITY 01:51.812 --> 01:52.713 FOR RUNNING 01:52.713 --> 01:53.113 IT. 01:53.113 --> 01:54.882 >> THE MANAGEMENT ASSUMES THE 01:54.882 --> 01:55.682 COSTS 01:55.682 --> 01:56.884 ASSOCIATED WITH THE 01:56.884 --> 01:58.852 FACILITY. 01:58.852 --> 02:01.355 >> SO SCOTT WALT, 02:01.355 --> 02:02.122 WHAT IS THE 02:02.122 --> 02:03.757 FUNCTION OF THE PRESSURE 02:03.757 --> 02:04.157 LIBRARY? 02:04.157 --> 02:05.692 >> THAT WE JUST HEARD, TO MAKE 02:05.692 --> 02:06.560 SURE 02:06.560 --> 02:09.229 THAT THE 02:09.229 --> 02:10.197 PUBLIC 02:10.197 --> 02:10.898 RETAINING 02:10.898 --> 02:12.599 ENDURING ACCESS TO THE RECORD OF 02:12.599 --> 02:13.467 THE MOST 02:13.467 --> 02:14.601 IMPORTANT PUBLIC 02:14.601 --> 02:15.035 OFFICIAL. 02:15.035 --> 02:17.938 PRIOR TO THE PRESIDENTIAL 02:17.938 --> 02:19.606 LIBRARIES, THE MATERIALS MIGHT 02:19.606 --> 02:21.775 HAVE BEEN 02:21.775 --> 02:22.809 DISPERSED AND 02:22.809 --> 02:23.510 PRIOR TO 02:23.510 --> 02:24.745 THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT 02:24.745 --> 02:25.145 IN 02:25.145 --> 02:26.914 1978, THE MATERIALS WERE 02:26.914 --> 02:28.582 CONSIDERED TO BE PERSONAL 02:28.582 --> 02:28.916 PAPERS. 02:28.916 --> 02:30.184 AND SO IT BE WASN'T 02:30.184 --> 02:30.918 ENSURED 02:30.918 --> 02:31.351 WE 02:31.351 --> 02:33.153 WOULD GET ACCESS TO 02:33.153 --> 02:33.654 THEM. 02:33.654 --> 02:34.555 NOW THE 02:34.555 --> 02:35.689 LAW SAYS THAT 02:35.689 --> 02:37.257 PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ARE PUBLIC 02:37.257 --> 02:38.192 RECORDS AND AS PUBLIC 02:38.192 --> 02:38.592 RECORDS, 02:38.592 --> 02:40.027 THEY ARE MAINTAINED IN THE 02:40.027 --> 02:41.428 LIBRARIES TO MAKE SURE THAT 02:41.428 --> 02:42.596 PEOPLE CAN HAVE ACCESS 02:42.596 --> 02:43.297 TO THEM 02:43.297 --> 02:44.464 AND UNDERSTAND THE WORKING OF 02:44.464 --> 02:46.200 THE GOVERNMENT AT THE HIGHEST 02:46.200 --> 02:46.633 LEVEL. 02:46.633 --> 02:47.734 >> GIVE ME A SENSE 02:47.734 --> 02:48.669 OF -- IF ONE 02:48.669 --> 02:50.170 GOES INTO A PRESIDENTIAL 02:50.170 --> 02:51.071 LIBRARY, YOU 02:51.071 --> 02:52.005 TALK ABOUT THE 02:52.005 --> 02:53.106 OFFICIAL 02:53.106 --> 02:54.074 RECORDS OF THE 02:54.074 --> 02:56.109 PRESIDENT, WHAT 02:56.109 --> 02:56.710 ELSE IS 02:56.710 --> 02:57.244 INSIDE 02:57.244 --> 02:59.279 OF A PRESIDENTIAL 02:59.279 --> 03:00.347 LIBRARIES? 03:00.347 --> 03:01.048 >> THEY'RE INTERESTING BECAUSE 03:01.048 --> 03:02.716 THEY'RE LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS 03:02.716 --> 03:03.784 AND HAVE THE 03:03.784 --> 03:04.852 PAPER RECORDS. 03:04.852 --> 03:05.786 THEY HAVE THE DIGITAL 03:05.786 --> 03:06.587 RECORDS. 03:06.587 --> 03:07.855 THEY HAVE THE ARTIFACTS THAT 03:07.855 --> 03:08.555 ARE 03:08.555 --> 03:10.190 COLLECTED THROUGHOUT A 03:10.190 --> 03:10.591 PRESIDENCY. 03:10.591 --> 03:11.992 THEY MAY BE 03:11.992 --> 03:13.026 GIFTS GIVEN TO 03:13.026 --> 03:15.229 PRESIDENTS BY CITIZENS 03:15.229 --> 03:16.163 OR 03:16.163 --> 03:16.964 FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND MAY 03:16.964 --> 03:18.065 HAVE 03:18.065 --> 03:19.566 MATERIALS 03:19.566 --> 03:20.400 DONATED TO SUPPLEMENT 03:20.400 --> 03:21.368 THOSE 03:21.368 --> 03:22.302 MATERIALS. 03:22.302 --> 03:23.437 ONE OF 03:23.437 --> 03:24.438 THE MOST RECENT 03:24.438 --> 03:26.406 DISCUSSIONS 03:26.406 --> 03:27.140 WAS THE 03:27.140 --> 03:27.908 KENNEDY 03:27.908 --> 03:29.042 LIBRARY AND 03:29.042 --> 03:29.843 COMIC BOOK 03:29.843 --> 03:34.515 ARTIST 03:34.515 --> 03:37.117 ASKED THE ORIGINAL ART FROM 03:37.117 --> 03:38.285 A 03:38.285 --> 03:39.419 SUPERMAN COMIC BOOK BE PART OF 03:39.419 --> 03:40.420 THE 03:40.420 --> 03:40.787 LIBRARY. 03:40.787 --> 03:43.690 SO IT WOULD BE A 03:43.690 --> 03:45.492 WIDE 03:45.492 --> 03:45.893 ARRAY 03:45.893 --> 03:46.493 OF 03:46.493 --> 03:46.894 THINGS. 03:46.894 --> 03:48.195 >> AFTER NIXON, ARE 03:48.195 --> 03:48.595 PRESIDENTS 03:48.595 --> 03:50.397 MORE 03:50.397 --> 03:51.398 AWARE OF THE 03:51.398 --> 03:55.102 RECORDS THEY 03:55.102 --> 03:56.603 GENERATE BECAUSE WE'VE HEARD 03:56.603 --> 03:58.438 IT'S A 03:58.438 --> 03:58.906 MUSEUM/SHRINE. 03:58.906 --> 04:01.208 HAVE 04:01.208 --> 04:05.946 PRESIDENTS 04:05.946 --> 04:06.880 GOTTEN MORE 04:06.880 --> 04:08.282 CRITICAL ON 04:08.282 --> 04:09.416 THAT? 04:09.416 --> 04:11.351 >> WATERGATE MADE THAT 04:11.351 --> 04:11.919 CLEAR 04:11.919 --> 04:12.286 TO 04:12.286 --> 04:13.820 SUBSEQUENT PRESIDENTS AND ONE 04:13.820 --> 04:15.455 REASON THEY HAVEN'T BEEN 04:15.455 --> 04:16.490 KEEPING 04:16.490 --> 04:16.990 AUDIOTAPES 04:16.990 --> 04:18.759 BUT 04:18.759 --> 04:19.560 UNDER THE 04:19.560 --> 04:21.161 PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS, ANY 04:21.161 --> 04:22.062 COMMUNICATION MADE TO 04:22.062 --> 04:22.996 OR FROM 04:22.996 --> 04:24.731 THE WHITE HOUSE OR FROM THE 04:24.731 --> 04:26.133 PRESIDENT'S STAFF IS 04:26.133 --> 04:26.466 SUBJECT 04:26.466 --> 04:26.833 TO 04:26.833 --> 04:28.502 THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS. 04:28.502 --> 04:29.436 THEY MUST BE 04:29.436 --> 04:33.040 DEPOSITED IN 04:33.040 --> 04:33.807 THESE 04:33.807 --> 04:34.641 ARCHIVES AND THEY ARE 04:34.641 --> 04:35.209 SENSITIVE 04:35.209 --> 04:36.376 TO WHAT KIND OF 04:36.376 --> 04:37.444 COMMUNICATIONTHEY 04:37.444 --> 04:38.078 UNDERTAKE. 04:38.078 --> 04:39.580 >> MORE 04:39.580 --> 04:40.380 RELIANCE 04:40.380 --> 04:41.181 ON 04:41.181 --> 04:42.316 VERBAL 04:42.316 --> 04:43.784 COMMUNICATION, IS THAT SAFE TO 04:43.784 --> 04:46.186 ASSUME? 04:46.186 --> 04:47.454 >> AND THERE 04:47.454 --> 04:48.488 HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTS 04:48.488 --> 04:49.489 TO USE PRIVATE 04:49.489 --> 04:50.290 COMMUNICATIONS 04:50.290 --> 04:51.925 OUTSIDE OF OFFICIAL CHANNELS TO 04:51.925 --> 04:53.327 SAY THE THINGS THEY DON'T WANT 04:53.327 --> 04:54.595 RECORDED FOR HISTORY. 04:54.595 --> 04:55.996 >> SCOTT WALTER, HOW 04:55.996 --> 04:56.663 ABOUT WITH 04:56.663 --> 04:57.865 THE ONSET OF 04:57.865 --> 04:58.799 INTERNET, EMAIL, 04:58.799 --> 05:01.969 TEXT 05:01.969 --> 05:03.470 MESSAGES, IS ANY OF 05:03.470 --> 05:03.971 THAT 05:03.971 --> 05:06.306 CONTENT 05:06.306 --> 05:07.007 REFLECTED IN 05:07.007 --> 05:09.443 PRESIDENTIAL 05:09.443 --> 05:09.943 LIBRARIES? 05:09.943 --> 05:11.512 >> IT'S AN ENORMOUS INCREASE SO 05:11.512 --> 05:12.412 THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE 05:12.412 --> 05:15.516 PRESSURE 05:15.516 --> 05:18.819 APPRECIATE 05:18.819 --> 05:19.686 PRESIDENTIAL 05:19.686 --> 05:24.992 RECORDS, IT EBBS 05:24.992 --> 05:26.326 IT 05:26.326 --> 05:26.693 EXPANDED. 05:26.693 --> 05:29.363 THE BUSH LIBRARY 05:29.363 --> 05:31.598 MAINTAINS 05:31.598 --> 05:32.766 80TEROBYT SER. 05:32.766 --> 05:33.400 >> MORE DATA 05:33.400 --> 05:34.234 THAN ANYBODY 05:34.234 --> 05:34.835 CAN 05:34.835 --> 05:35.536 POSSIBLY COMPLAIN IN ONE PLACE 05:35.536 --> 05:36.503 AND 05:36.503 --> 05:37.437 SO THAT WOULD BE 05:37.437 --> 05:38.505 THE 05:38.505 --> 05:39.606 ARCHIVES OF THE 05:39.606 --> 05:40.440 WEBSITE, 05:40.440 --> 05:40.707 THE 05:40.707 --> 05:42.209 WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE SITE BUT 05:42.209 --> 05:43.677 ALL OF THE 05:43.677 --> 05:44.077 EMAILS. 05:44.077 --> 05:45.579 >> AND ALL OF THAT IS ACCESSIBLE 05:45.579 --> 05:46.947 TO THE 05:46.947 --> 05:47.781 PUBLIC? 05:47.781 --> 05:48.482 >> WELL, I 05:48.482 --> 05:49.650 CAN'T SAY THAT BUT IT 05:49.650 --> 05:51.118 IS 05:51.118 --> 05:51.618 MAINTAINED AS 05:51.618 --> 05:52.352 PART OF 05:52.352 --> 05:53.187 THE 05:53.187 --> 05:54.288 ARCHIVE AND PROCESSED ALONG WITH 05:54.288 --> 05:55.322 THE OTHER 05:55.322 --> 05:56.757 MATERIALS OF THE PUSH 05:56.757 --> 05:58.292 PRESIDENCY AND OF 05:58.292 --> 05:58.458 COURSE 05:58.458 --> 05:58.725 THE 05:58.725 --> 05:59.860 CLINTONS PRESIDENCY BEFORE THAT 05:59.860 --> 06:01.929 AND WE CAN IMAGINE THAT WITH THE 06:01.929 --> 06:02.462 OBAMA PRESIDENCY 06:02.462 --> 06:03.363 THERE WILL BE 06:03.363 --> 06:04.932 AN EVEN GREATER INCREASE 06:04.932 --> 06:05.499 IN 06:05.499 --> 06:05.866 THE 06:05.866 --> 06:12.172 DIGITAL 06:12.172 --> 06:12.639 FOOTPRINTS. 06:12.639 --> 06:13.707 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT. 06:13.707 --> 06:15.342 WHAT ARE CHICAGO'S 06:15.342 --> 06:15.709 CHANCES, 06:15.709 --> 06:17.377 MICHAEL ALLEN, 06:17.377 --> 06:17.511 BASED 06:17.511 --> 06:19.146 ON HOW 06:19.146 --> 06:19.847 PRESIDENTS GO ABOUT SELECTING 06:19.847 --> 06:20.747 THE LOCATES? 06:20.747 --> 06:21.515 >> VERY STRONG. 06:21.515 --> 06:22.683 THE PRESIDENT TENDENCIES TO 06:22.683 --> 06:24.518 LOCATE LIBRARIES IN THEIR HOME 06:24.518 --> 06:25.752 STATES, THEIR HOMETOWNS, CLOSE 06:25.752 --> 06:26.787 TO WHERE THEY GREW UP 06:26.787 --> 06:28.422 AND THE 06:28.422 --> 06:28.889 OBAMAS 06:28.889 --> 06:30.190 CLEARLY HAVE STRONG 06:30.190 --> 06:30.557 TIES 06:30.557 --> 06:32.693 TO CHICAGO, THEY HAVE THEIR 06:32.693 --> 06:32.826 HOUSE 06:32.826 --> 06:34.294 HERE, THEIR POLITICAL AND 06:34.294 --> 06:35.896 PROFESSIONAL CAREERS WERE 06:35.896 --> 06:36.296 BASED 06:36.296 --> 06:37.364 HERE AND IT 06:37.364 --> 06:38.632 WOULD SEEM 06:38.632 --> 06:39.099 THAT THE 06:39.099 --> 06:40.734 CHICAGO LOCATION WOULD BE 06:40.734 --> 06:41.902 ATTRACTIVE IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE 06:41.902 --> 06:43.403 OBAMA IS A YOUNG PRESIDENT WHO 06:43.403 --> 06:44.204 WILL 06:44.204 --> 06:46.006 LIKELY LIVE FOR QUITE 06:46.006 --> 06:47.007 SOME 06:47.007 --> 06:47.374 TIME. 06:47.374 --> 06:49.443 >> HOW ABOUT WHEN HE LEAVES 06:49.443 --> 06:50.143 OFFICE? 06:50.143 --> 06:51.578 >> THEY WILL USE THESE 06:51.578 --> 06:51.979 LIBRARIES 06:51.979 --> 06:53.280 AS HOME 06:53.280 --> 06:54.915 BASIS TO LAUNCH 06:54.915 --> 06:56.550 INITIATIVES AND 06:56.550 --> 06:57.417 OBAMA HAS SPOKEN 06:57.417 --> 06:59.353 ABOUT HOW HE WISHES 06:59.353 --> 07:00.454 FOR HIS 07:00.454 --> 07:01.755 LIBRARY TO 07:01.755 --> 07:03.190 BECOME 07:03.190 --> 07:03.790 AN ECONOMIC 07:03.790 --> 07:05.058 MISSION AND WE WOULD THINK 07:05.058 --> 07:05.559 HE 07:05.559 --> 07:06.760 WOULD WANT THAT TO HAPPEN IN 07:06.760 --> 07:07.928 CHICAGO WHETHER HE GOT HUSBAND 07:07.928 --> 07:09.296 START 07:09.296 --> 07:10.464 IN THE 07:10.464 --> 07:11.331 COMMUNITITY. 07:11.331 --> 07:13.133 >> SCOTT, DO 07:13.133 --> 07:14.168 YOU AGREE 07:14.168 --> 07:15.068 WITH 07:15.068 --> 07:15.969 THAT? 07:15.969 --> 07:17.004 MICHAEL YOU SEEM 07:17.004 --> 07:19.239 TO THINK 07:19.239 --> 07:19.940 IT'S 07:19.940 --> 07:20.941 CHICAGO'S PLACE TO LOSE. 07:20.941 --> 07:22.075 >> I THINK CHICAGO WOULD BE A 07:22.075 --> 07:23.677 WONDERFUL PLACE BUT ALSO 07:23.677 --> 07:24.211 BECAUSE 07:24.211 --> 07:25.679 OF THE 07:25.679 --> 07:28.815 CONCENTRATION OF 07:28.815 --> 07:32.252 SCHOLARS 07:32.252 --> 07:33.687 AT MULTIPLE 07:33.687 --> 07:34.288 UNIVERSITIES IN 07:34.288 --> 07:34.988 THE 07:34.988 --> 07:35.355 AREA. 07:35.355 --> 07:36.290 >> THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS 07:36.290 --> 07:38.058 CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE THE 07:38.058 --> 07:39.893 LEADING OF 07:39.893 --> 07:40.194 THE 07:40.194 --> 07:41.361 SIX POTENTIAL 07:41.361 --> 07:42.329 BIDDERS, SO TO 07:42.329 --> 07:42.963 SPEAK. 07:42.963 --> 07:43.997 IN TERMS 07:43.997 --> 07:44.831 OF -- MICHAEL, 07:44.831 --> 07:45.566 YOU 07:45.566 --> 07:46.833 MENTIONED POTENTIAL PROBLEMS 07:46.833 --> 07:50.504 INVOLVING LIBRARIES. 07:50.504 --> 07:51.738 THE DUALITY OF WHAT THEY CAN 07:51.738 --> 07:52.372 BE. 07:52.372 --> 07:52.706 >> SURE. 07:52.706 --> 07:54.975 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ONE 07:54.975 --> 07:55.375 OF 07:55.375 --> 07:55.642 THE 07:55.642 --> 07:56.844 THINGS THAT IS 07:56.844 --> 07:57.644 INTENTIONED IN 07:57.644 --> 07:59.046 THE PRESIDENTIAL ARCHIVE'S 07:59.046 --> 08:00.514 SYSTEM, YOU HAVE THE ARCHIVES 08:00.514 --> 08:01.882 WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO GATHER 08:01.882 --> 08:02.449 AND 08:02.449 --> 08:04.117 STORE ALL RECORDS ABOUT A 08:04.117 --> 08:05.252 PRESIDENCY, WHICH 08:05.252 --> 08:05.853 IS 08:05.853 --> 08:06.453 SOMETIMES 08:06.453 --> 08:07.321 INCLUDES 08:07.321 --> 08:08.655 EMBARRASSING OR 08:08.655 --> 08:09.623 UNFLATTERING DETAILS AND THE 08:09.623 --> 08:10.757 MUSEUM WHICH IS 08:10.757 --> 08:12.492 REALLY BUILT TO 08:12.492 --> 08:13.093 MEMORIALIZE THE PRESIDENT 08:13.093 --> 08:13.527 AND 08:13.527 --> 08:14.928 CELEBRATE HIM AS A GREAT MAN 08:14.928 --> 08:16.096 AND 08:16.096 --> 08:16.797 LEADER. 08:16.797 --> 08:18.098 THE 08:18.098 --> 08:18.565 LIBRARY IS 08:18.565 --> 08:19.032 SPECIFICALLY 08:19.032 --> 08:20.601 SERVING SCHOLARS, A 08:20.601 --> 08:21.034 SMALLER 08:21.034 --> 08:21.902 NUMBER OF PEOPLE. 08:21.902 --> 08:23.303 WHERE IT CATERS TO 08:23.303 --> 08:23.704 THE PUBLIC 08:23.704 --> 08:24.872 AND PUTS ON A 08:24.872 --> 08:29.109 POSITIVE AND 08:29.109 --> 08:30.944 CELEBRATORY PRESENTATION 08:30.944 --> 08:31.945 OF 08:31.945 --> 08:32.379 PRESIDENT. 08:32.379 --> 08:33.747 >> YOU 08:33.747 --> 08:34.114 KNOW, AT 08:34.114 --> 08:35.482 THE RESULT OF 08:35.482 --> 08:36.583 THIS 08:36.583 --> 08:38.685 IS THAT 08:38.685 --> 08:39.186 OFTENTIMES THE 08:39.186 --> 08:40.554 PUBLIC GETS A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT 08:40.554 --> 08:42.356 THAT THE SCHOLARS AT WORK 08:42.356 --> 08:42.756 TRYING 08:42.756 --> 08:43.557 TO 08:43.557 --> 08:45.392 ACCOUNT FOR THAT ON THE 08:45.392 --> 08:45.792 RECORD. 08:45.792 --> 08:47.961 >> THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING 08:47.961 --> 08:48.262 HERE. 08:48.262 --> 08:49.296 YOU CAN CHECK OUT 08:49.296 --> 08:58.438 OR 08:58.438 --> 08:59.139 >> PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SET THE 08:59.139 --> 08:59.806 AREAS IN MOTION TO SELECT A 08:59.806 --> 09:01.008 LOCATION FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL 09:01.008 --> 09:01.341 LIBRARY. 09:01.341 --> 09:02.976 MAYOR EMANUEL HAS ANNOUNCED HE 09:02.976 --> 09:04.344 WANTS TO UNINEED CHICAGO BID TO 09:04.344 --> 09:05.546 GET IT. 09:05.546 --> 09:06.380 THIS IN THE FACE 09:06.380 --> 09:08.215 OF LIKELY 09:08.215 --> 09:08.949 COMPETITIONS FROM NEW YORK CITY 09:08.949 --> 09:10.017 AND THE STATE OF 09:10.017 --> 09:10.450 HAWAII. 09:10.450 --> 09:11.418 HOW DID PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES 09:11.418 --> 09:12.786 COME TO BE? 09:12.786 --> 09:13.854 >> WHAT EXACTLY DO THEY 09:13.854 --> 09:14.454 DO AND 09:14.454 --> 09:15.956 DOES CHICAGO REALLY HAVE 09:15.956 --> 09:16.590 THE 09:16.590 --> 09:17.057 INSIDE TRACK? 09:17.057 --> 09:18.458 HERE TO TALK 09:18.458 --> 09:19.059 ABOUT THE 09:19.059 --> 09:19.459 HISTORY 09:19.459 --> 09:20.727 ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES AND 09:20.727 --> 09:21.628 ASSESS THE 09:21.628 --> 09:22.696 CHANCES ARE MICHAEL 09:22.696 --> 09:24.031 ALLEN, A PROFESSOR OF 09:24.031 --> 09:24.998 HISTORY AT 09:24.998 --> 09:25.732 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND 09:25.732 --> 09:28.368 SPECIAL LIESES 09:28.368 --> 09:29.670 IZES 09:29.670 --> 09:31.705 IN 20th CENTURY 09:31.705 --> 09:33.574 MEMORY AND SCOTT 09:33.574 --> 09:33.907 WALTER, 09:33.907 --> 09:34.875 UNIVERSITY OF DePAUL 09:34.875 --> 09:36.443 UNIVERSITY. 09:36.443 --> 09:37.845 FIRST OF 09:37.845 --> 09:39.613 ALL, HOW 09:39.613 --> 09:40.113 DID 09:40.113 --> 09:40.814 PRESIDENTIAL UNIVERSITIES COME 09:40.814 --> 09:41.548 TO BE? 09:41.548 --> 09:43.283 >> THEY WERE 09:43.283 --> 09:44.818 CREATED BY FRANKLIN 09:44.818 --> 09:45.953 ROOSEVELT IN 09:45.953 --> 09:46.520 THE 1930'S 09:46.520 --> 09:47.354 AND HE 09:47.354 --> 09:49.756 THOUGHT HE WOULD CREATE A 09:49.756 --> 09:50.357 MONUMENT 09:50.357 --> 09:56.763 TO HIMSELF AND A 09:56.763 --> 09:58.031 WAREHOUSE FOR RECORDS. 09:58.031 --> 10:00.167 HE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE HIS 10:00.167 --> 10:06.039 PAPERSTIVE SEED UP 10:06.039 --> 10:11.912 TIVE 10:11.912 --> 10:12.246 DIVIED 10:12.246 --> 10:12.746 UP. 10:12.746 --> 10:14.047 HE WANTED TO CREATE 10:14.047 --> 10:14.548 A SHRINE TO 10:14.548 --> 10:16.216 HIS MEMORY BUT ALSO THEN 10:16.216 --> 10:17.050 DONATE 10:17.050 --> 10:17.684 THAT T 10:17.684 --> 10:18.852 O THE PUBLIC AND THE 10:18.852 --> 10:20.053 PUBLIC WOULD ASSUME THE 10:20.053 --> 10:20.521 COSTS 10:20.521 --> 10:22.823 AFTER IT WAS FILLED. 10:22.823 --> 10:23.790 >> THAT CONTINUED 10:23.790 --> 10:24.992 TO THE STATE, 10:24.992 --> 10:25.392 CORRECT? 10:25.392 --> 10:26.326 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 10:26.326 --> 10:26.660 THE. 10:26.660 --> 10:28.428 >> THE PRESIDENTS AND FRIENDS 10:28.428 --> 10:29.363 RAISED THE 10:29.363 --> 10:30.464 MONEY FROM PRIVATE 10:30.464 --> 10:31.765 SOURCES AND 10:31.765 --> 10:32.432 DONORS AND 10:32.432 --> 10:33.634 THE 10:33.634 --> 10:34.268 GOVERNMENT 10:34.268 --> 10:41.208 TAKES RESPONSIBILITY 10:41.208 --> 10:42.109 FOR RUNNING 10:42.109 --> 10:42.509 IT. 10:42.509 --> 10:44.278 >> THE MANAGEMENT ASSUMES THE 10:44.278 --> 10:45.078 COSTS 10:45.078 --> 10:46.280 ASSOCIATED WITH THE 10:46.280 --> 10:48.248 FACILITY. 10:48.248 --> 10:50.751 >> SO SCOTT WALT, 10:50.751 --> 10:51.518 WHAT IS THE 10:51.518 --> 10:53.153 FUNCTION OF THE PRESSURE 10:53.153 --> 10:53.554 LIBRARY? 10:53.554 --> 10:55.088 >> THAT WE JUST HEARD, TO MAKE 10:55.088 --> 10:55.956 SURE 10:55.956 --> 10:58.625 THAT THE 10:58.625 --> 10:59.593 PUBLIC 10:59.593 --> 11:00.294 RETAINING 11:00.294 --> 11:01.995 ENDURING ACCESS TO THE RECORD OF 11:01.995 --> 11:02.863 THE MOST 11:02.863 --> 11:03.997 IMPORTANT PUBLIC 11:03.997 --> 11:04.431 OFFICIAL. 11:04.431 --> 11:07.334 PRIOR TO THE PRESIDENTIAL 11:07.334 --> 11:09.002 LIBRARIES, THE MATERIALS MIGHT 11:09.002 --> 11:11.171 HAVE BEEN 11:11.171 --> 11:12.206 DISPERSED AND 11:12.206 --> 11:12.906 PRIOR TO 11:12.906 --> 11:14.141 THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT 11:14.141 --> 11:14.541 IN 11:14.541 --> 11:16.310 1978, THE MATERIALS WERE 11:16.310 --> 11:17.978 CONSIDERED TO BE PERSONAL 11:17.978 --> 11:18.312 PAPERS. 11:18.312 --> 11:19.580 AND SO IT BE WASN'T 11:19.580 --> 11:20.314 ENSURED 11:20.314 --> 11:20.747 WE 11:20.747 --> 11:22.549 WOULD GET ACCESS TO 11:22.549 --> 11:23.050 THEM. 11:23.050 --> 11:23.951 NOW THE 11:23.951 --> 11:25.085 LAW SAYS THAT 11:25.085 --> 11:26.653 PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ARE PUBLIC 11:26.653 --> 11:27.588 RECORDS AND AS PUBLIC 11:27.588 --> 11:27.988 RECORDS, 11:27.988 --> 11:29.423 THEY ARE MAINTAINED IN THE 11:29.423 --> 11:30.824 LIBRARIES TO MAKE SURE THAT 11:30.824 --> 11:31.992 PEOPLE CAN HAVE ACCESS 11:31.992 --> 11:32.693 TO THEM 11:32.693 --> 11:33.861 AND UNDERSTAND THE WORKING OF 11:33.861 --> 11:35.596 THE GOVERNMENT AT THE HIGHEST 11:35.596 --> 11:36.029 LEVEL. 11:36.029 --> 11:37.130 >> GIVE ME A SENSE 11:37.130 --> 11:38.065 OF -- IF ONE 11:38.065 --> 11:39.566 GOES INTO A PRESIDENTIAL 11:39.566 --> 11:40.467 LIBRARY, YOU 11:40.467 --> 11:41.401 TALK ABOUT THE 11:41.401 --> 11:42.503 OFFICIAL 11:42.503 --> 11:43.470 RECORDS OF THE 11:43.470 --> 11:45.506 PRESIDENT, WHAT 11:45.506 --> 11:46.106 ELSE IS 11:46.106 --> 11:46.640 INSIDE 11:46.640 --> 11:48.675 OF A PRESIDENTIAL 11:48.675 --> 11:49.743 LIBRARIES? 11:49.743 --> 11:50.444 >> THEY'RE INTERESTING BECAUSE 11:50.444 --> 11:52.112 THEY'RE LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS 11:52.112 --> 11:53.180 AND HAVE THE 11:53.180 --> 11:54.248 PAPER RECORDS. 11:54.248 --> 11:55.182 THEY HAVE THE DIGITAL 11:55.182 --> 11:55.983 RECORDS. 11:55.983 --> 11:57.251 THEY HAVE THE ARTIFACTS THAT 11:57.251 --> 11:57.951 ARE 11:57.951 --> 11:59.586 COLLECTED THROUGHOUT A 11:59.586 --> 11:59.987 PRESIDENCY. 11:59.987 --> 12:01.388 THEY MAY BE 12:01.388 --> 12:02.422 GIFTS GIVEN TO 12:02.422 --> 12:04.625 PRESIDENTS BY CITIZENS 12:04.625 --> 12:05.559 OR 12:05.559 --> 12:06.360 FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND MAY 12:06.360 --> 12:07.461 HAVE 12:07.461 --> 12:08.962 MATERIALS 12:08.962 --> 12:09.796 DONATED TO SUPPLEMENT 12:09.796 --> 12:10.764 THOSE 12:10.764 --> 12:11.698 MATERIALS. 12:11.698 --> 12:12.833 ONE OF 12:12.833 --> 12:13.834 THE MOST RECENT 12:13.834 --> 12:15.802 DISCUSSIONS 12:15.802 --> 12:16.537 WAS THE 12:16.537 --> 12:17.304 KENNEDY 12:17.304 --> 12:18.438 LIBRARY AND 12:18.438 --> 12:19.239 COMIC BOOK 12:19.239 --> 12:23.911 ARTIST 12:23.911 --> 12:26.513 ASKED THE ORIGINAL ART FROM 12:26.513 --> 12:27.681 A 12:27.681 --> 12:28.815 SUPERMAN COMIC BOOK BE PART OF 12:28.815 --> 12:29.816 THE 12:29.816 --> 12:30.184 LIBRARY. 12:30.184 --> 12:33.086 SO IT WOULD BE A 12:33.086 --> 12:34.888 WIDE 12:34.888 --> 12:35.289 ARRAY 12:35.289 --> 12:35.889 OF 12:35.889 --> 12:36.290 THINGS. 12:36.290 --> 12:37.591 >> AFTER NIXON, ARE 12:37.591 --> 12:37.991 PRESIDENTS 12:37.991 --> 12:39.793 MORE 12:39.793 --> 12:40.794 AWARE OF THE 12:40.794 --> 12:44.498 RECORDS THEY 12:44.498 --> 12:45.999 GENERATE BECAUSE WE'VE HEARD 12:45.999 --> 12:47.835 IT'S A 12:47.835 --> 12:48.302 MUSEUM/SHRINE. 12:48.302 --> 12:50.604 HAVE 12:50.604 --> 12:55.342 PRESIDENTS 12:55.342 --> 12:56.276 GOTTEN MORE 12:56.276 --> 12:57.678 CRITICAL ON 12:57.678 --> 12:58.812 THAT? 12:58.812 --> 13:00.747 >> WATERGATE MADE THAT 13:00.747 --> 13:01.315 CLEAR 13:01.315 --> 13:01.682 TO 13:01.682 --> 13:03.217 SUBSEQUENT PRESIDENTS AND ONE 13:03.217 --> 13:04.852 REASON THEY HAVEN'T BEEN 13:04.852 --> 13:05.886 KEEPING 13:05.886 --> 13:06.386 AUDIOTAPES 13:06.386 --> 13:08.155 BUT 13:08.155 --> 13:08.956 UNDER THE 13:08.956 --> 13:10.557 PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS, ANY 13:10.557 --> 13:11.458 COMMUNICATION MADE TO 13:11.458 --> 13:12.392 OR FROM 13:12.392 --> 13:14.127 THE WHITE HOUSE OR FROM THE 13:14.127 --> 13:15.529 PRESIDENT'S STAFF IS 13:15.529 --> 13:15.863 SUBJECT 13:15.863 --> 13:16.230 TO 13:16.230 --> 13:17.898 THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS. 13:17.898 --> 13:18.832 THEY MUST BE 13:18.832 --> 13:22.436 DEPOSITED IN 13:22.436 --> 13:23.203 THESE 13:23.203 --> 13:24.037 ARCHIVES AND THEY ARE 13:24.037 --> 13:24.605 SENSITIVE 13:24.605 --> 13:25.772 TO WHAT KIND OF 13:25.772 --> 13:26.840 COMMUNICATIONTHEY 13:26.840 --> 13:27.474 UNDERTAKE. 13:27.474 --> 13:28.976 >> MORE 13:28.976 --> 13:29.776 RELIANCE 13:29.776 --> 13:30.577 ON 13:30.577 --> 13:31.712 VERBAL 13:31.712 --> 13:33.180 COMMUNICATION, IS THAT SAFE TO 13:33.180 --> 13:35.582 ASSUME? 13:35.582 --> 13:36.850 >> AND THERE 13:36.850 --> 13:37.885 HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTS 13:37.885 --> 13:38.886 TO USE PRIVATE 13:38.886 --> 13:39.686 COMMUNICATIONS 13:39.686 --> 13:41.321 OUTSIDE OF OFFICIAL CHANNELS TO 13:41.321 --> 13:42.723 SAY THE THINGS THEY DON'T WANT 13:42.723 --> 13:43.991 RECORDED FOR HISTORY. 13:43.991 --> 13:45.392 >> SCOTT WALTER, HOW 13:45.392 --> 13:46.059 ABOUT WITH 13:46.059 --> 13:47.261 THE ONSET OF 13:47.261 --> 13:48.195 INTERNET, EMAIL, 13:48.195 --> 13:51.365 TEXT 13:51.365 --> 13:52.866 MESSAGES, IS ANY OF 13:52.866 --> 13:53.367 THAT 13:53.367 --> 13:55.702 CONTENT 13:55.702 --> 13:56.403 REFLECTED IN 13:56.403 --> 13:58.839 PRESIDENTIAL 13:58.839 --> 13:59.339 LIBRARIES? 13:59.339 --> 14:00.908 >> IT'S AN ENORMOUS INCREASE SO 14:00.908 --> 14:01.808 THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE 14:01.808 --> 14:04.912 PRESSURE 14:04.912 --> 14:08.215 APPRECIATE 14:08.215 --> 14:09.082 PRESIDENTIAL 14:09.082 --> 14:14.388 RECORDS, IT EBBS 14:14.388 --> 14:15.722 IT 14:15.722 --> 14:16.089 EXPANDED. 14:16.089 --> 14:18.759 THE BUSH LIBRARY 14:18.759 --> 14:20.994 MAINTAINS 14:20.994 --> 14:22.162 80TEROBYT SER. 14:22.162 --> 14:22.796 >> MORE DATA 14:22.796 --> 14:23.630 THAN ANYBODY 14:23.630 --> 14:24.231 CAN 14:24.231 --> 14:24.932 POSSIBLY COMPLAIN IN ONE PLACE 14:24.932 --> 14:25.899 AND 14:25.899 --> 14:26.833 SO THAT WOULD BE 14:26.833 --> 14:27.901 THE 14:27.901 --> 14:29.002 ARCHIVES OF THE 14:29.002 --> 14:29.837 WEBSITE, 14:29.837 --> 14:30.103 THE 14:30.103 --> 14:31.605 WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE SITE BUT 14:31.605 --> 14:33.073 ALL OF THE 14:33.073 --> 14:33.473 EMAILS. 14:33.473 --> 14:34.975 >> AND ALL OF THAT IS ACCESSIBLE 14:34.975 --> 14:36.343 TO THE 14:36.343 --> 14:37.177 PUBLIC? 14:37.177 --> 14:37.878 >> WELL, I 14:37.878 --> 14:39.046 CAN'T SAY THAT BUT IT 14:39.046 --> 14:40.514 IS 14:40.514 --> 14:41.014 MAINTAINED AS 14:41.014 --> 14:41.748 PART OF 14:41.748 --> 14:42.583 THE 14:42.583 --> 14:43.684 ARCHIVE AND PROCESSED ALONG WITH 14:43.684 --> 14:44.718 THE OTHER 14:44.718 --> 14:46.153 MATERIALS OF THE PUSH 14:46.153 --> 14:47.688 PRESIDENCY AND OF 14:47.688 --> 14:47.855 COURSE 14:47.855 --> 14:48.121 THE 14:48.121 --> 14:49.256 CLINTONS PRESIDENCY BEFORE THAT 14:49.256 --> 14:51.325 AND WE CAN IMAGINE THAT WITH THE 14:51.325 --> 14:51.859 OBAMA PRESIDENCY 14:51.859 --> 14:52.759 THERE WILL BE 14:52.759 --> 14:54.328 AN EVEN GREATER INCREASE 14:54.328 --> 14:54.895 IN 14:54.895 --> 14:55.262 THE 14:55.262 --> 15:01.568 DIGITAL 15:01.568 --> 15:02.035 FOOTPRINTS. 15:02.035 --> 15:03.103 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT. 15:03.103 --> 15:04.738 WHAT ARE CHICAGO'S 15:04.738 --> 15:05.105 CHANCES, 15:05.105 --> 15:06.773 MICHAEL ALLEN, 15:06.773 --> 15:06.907 BASED 15:06.907 --> 15:08.542 ON HOW 15:08.542 --> 15:09.243 PRESIDENTS GO ABOUT SELECTING 15:09.243 --> 15:10.143 THE LOCATES? 15:10.143 --> 15:10.911 >> VERY STRONG. 15:10.911 --> 15:12.079 THE PRESIDENT TENDENCIES TO 15:12.079 --> 15:13.914 LOCATE LIBRARIES IN THEIR HOME 15:13.914 --> 15:15.148 STATES, THEIR HOMETOWNS, CLOSE 15:15.148 --> 15:16.183 TO WHERE THEY GREW UP 15:16.183 --> 15:17.818 AND THE 15:17.818 --> 15:18.285 OBAMAS 15:18.285 --> 15:19.586 CLEARLY HAVE STRONG 15:19.586 --> 15:19.953 TIES 15:19.953 --> 15:22.089 TO CHICAGO, THEY HAVE THEIR 15:22.089 --> 15:22.222 HOUSE 15:22.222 --> 15:23.690 HERE, THEIR POLITICAL AND 15:23.690 --> 15:25.292 PROFESSIONAL CAREERS WERE 15:25.292 --> 15:25.692 BASED 15:25.692 --> 15:26.760 HERE AND IT 15:26.760 --> 15:28.028 WOULD SEEM 15:28.028 --> 15:28.495 THAT THE 15:28.495 --> 15:30.130 CHICAGO LOCATION WOULD BE 15:30.130 --> 15:31.298 ATTRACTIVE IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE 15:31.298 --> 15:32.799 OBAMA IS A YOUNG PRESIDENT WHO 15:32.799 --> 15:33.600 WILL 15:33.600 --> 15:35.402 LIKELY LIVE FOR QUITE 15:35.402 --> 15:36.403 SOME 15:36.403 --> 15:36.770 TIME. 15:36.770 --> 15:38.839 >> HOW ABOUT WHEN HE LEAVES 15:38.839 --> 15:39.540 OFFICE? 15:39.540 --> 15:40.974 >> THEY WILL USE THESE 15:40.974 --> 15:41.375 LIBRARIES 15:41.375 --> 15:42.676 AS HOME 15:42.676 --> 15:44.311 BASIS TO LAUNCH 15:44.311 --> 15:45.946 INITIATIVES AND 15:45.946 --> 15:46.813 OBAMA HAS SPOKEN 15:46.813 --> 15:48.749 ABOUT HOW HE WISHES 15:48.749 --> 15:49.850 FOR HIS 15:49.850 --> 15:51.151 LIBRARY TO 15:51.151 --> 15:52.586 BECOME 15:52.586 --> 15:53.187 AN ECONOMIC 15:53.187 --> 15:54.454 MISSION AND WE WOULD THINK 15:54.454 --> 15:54.955 HE 15:54.955 --> 15:56.156 WOULD WANT THAT TO HAPPEN IN 15:56.156 --> 15:57.324 CHICAGO WHETHER HE GOT HUSBAND 15:57.324 --> 15:58.692 START 15:58.692 --> 15:59.860 IN THE 15:59.860 --> 16:00.727 COMMUNITITY. 16:00.727 --> 16:02.529 >> SCOTT, DO 16:02.529 --> 16:03.564 YOU AGREE 16:03.564 --> 16:04.464 WITH 16:04.464 --> 16:05.365 THAT? 16:05.365 --> 16:06.400 MICHAEL YOU SEEM 16:06.400 --> 16:08.635 TO THINK 16:08.635 --> 16:09.336 IT'S 16:09.336 --> 16:10.337 CHICAGO'S PLACE TO LOSE. 16:10.337 --> 16:11.471 >> I THINK CHICAGO WOULD BE A 16:11.471 --> 16:13.073 WONDERFUL PLACE BUT ALSO 16:13.073 --> 16:13.607 BECAUSE 16:13.607 --> 16:15.075 OF THE 16:15.075 --> 16:18.212 CONCENTRATION OF 16:18.212 --> 16:21.648 SCHOLARS 16:21.648 --> 16:23.083 AT MULTIPLE 16:23.083 --> 16:23.684 UNIVERSITIES IN 16:23.684 --> 16:24.384 THE 16:24.384 --> 16:24.751 AREA. 16:24.751 --> 16:25.686 >> THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS 16:25.686 --> 16:27.454 CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE THE 16:27.454 --> 16:29.289 LEADING OF 16:29.289 --> 16:29.590 THE 16:29.590 --> 16:30.757 SIX POTENTIAL 16:30.757 --> 16:31.725 BIDDERS, SO TO 16:31.725 --> 16:32.359 SPEAK. 16:32.359 --> 16:33.393 IN TERMS 16:33.393 --> 16:34.228 OF -- MICHAEL, 16:34.228 --> 16:34.962 YOU 16:34.962 --> 16:36.230 MENTIONED POTENTIAL PROBLEMS 16:36.230 --> 16:39.900 INVOLVING LIBRARIES. 16:39.900 --> 16:41.134 THE DUALITY OF WHAT THEY CAN 16:41.134 --> 16:41.768 BE. 16:41.768 --> 16:42.102 >> SURE. 16:42.102 --> 16:44.371 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ONE 16:44.371 --> 16:44.771 OF 16:44.771 --> 16:45.038 THE 16:45.038 --> 16:46.240 THINGS THAT IS 16:46.240 --> 16:47.040 INTENTIONED IN 16:47.040 --> 16:48.442 THE PRESIDENTIAL ARCHIVE'S 16:48.442 --> 16:49.910 SYSTEM, YOU HAVE THE ARCHIVES 16:49.910 --> 16:51.278 WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO GATHER 16:51.278 --> 16:51.845 AND 16:51.845 --> 16:53.514 STORE ALL RECORDS ABOUT A 16:53.514 --> 16:54.648 PRESIDENCY, WHICH 16:54.648 --> 16:55.249 IS 16:55.249 --> 16:55.849 SOMETIMES 16:55.849 --> 16:56.717 INCLUDES 16:56.717 --> 16:58.051 EMBARRASSING OR 16:58.051 --> 16:59.019 UNFLATTERING DETAILS AND THE 16:59.019 --> 17:00.153 MUSEUM WHICH IS 17:00.153 --> 17:01.889 REALLY BUILT TO 17:01.889 --> 17:02.489 MEMORIALIZE THE PRESIDENT 17:02.489 --> 17:02.923 AND 17:02.923 --> 17:04.324 CELEBRATE HIM AS A GREAT MAN 17:04.324 --> 17:05.492 AND 17:05.492 --> 17:06.193 LEADER. 17:06.193 --> 17:07.494 THE 17:07.494 --> 17:07.961 LIBRARY IS 17:07.961 --> 17:08.428 SPECIFICALLY 17:08.428 --> 17:09.997 SERVING SCHOLARS, A 17:09.997 --> 17:10.430 SMALLER 17:10.430 --> 17:11.298 NUMBER OF PEOPLE. 17:11.298 --> 17:12.699 WHERE IT CATERS TO 17:12.699 --> 17:13.100 THE PUBLIC 17:13.100 --> 17:14.268 AND PUTS ON A 17:14.268 --> 17:18.505 POSITIVE AND 17:18.505 --> 17:20.340 CELEBRATORY PRESENTATION 17:20.340 --> 17:21.341 OF 17:21.341 --> 17:21.775 PRESIDENT. 17:21.775 --> 17:23.143 >> YOU 17:23.143 --> 17:23.510 KNOW, AT 17:23.510 --> 17:24.878 THE RESULT OF 17:24.878 --> 17:25.979 THIS 17:25.979 --> 17:28.081 IS THAT 17:28.081 --> 17:28.582 OFTENTIMES THE 17:28.582 --> 17:29.950 PUBLIC GETS A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT 17:29.950 --> 17:31.752 THAT THE SCHOLARS AT WORK 17:31.752 --> 17:32.152 TRYING 17:32.152 --> 17:32.953 TO 17:32.953 --> 17:34.788 ACCOUNT FOR THAT ON THE 17:34.788 --> 17:35.189 RECORD. 17:35.189 --> 17:37.357 >> THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING 17:37.357 --> 17:37.658 HERE. 17:37.658 --> 17:41.658 YOU CAN CHECK OUT