visited Clinton's Home from birth to age 5....He evidently remembers this place and has been quoted as saying that he feels that it had the most direct effect on his personna...interesting?...
His mother and her mother were Nurses...when he was quite young his mother left to go out of town to nget her degree as Nurse Anesthitist...and he was cared for by his Great Grandfather and particularly his grandparents...and a grand uncle...His Grandfather had a grocery store and Bill said that his grandfather especially was the one who taught him the most...They lived in a rented modest home which they subsequently were able to purchase...HIs mother taught him to add and subtract and recognize numbers from Playing Cards she hung randomly on tghe kitchen curtains!...He was a good student...joined everything he could and eaqrly on decided to become a politician!..the house was interesting and I had great opportunity to get lots of good pictures...The town is little...sort of poor and had a very large black population...an interesting fact was that Vince Foster was in his Kindergarten class..later becoming a close adviser and ultimately it was theorized that he committed suicide by shooting himself!...as we were in the house the train just close by went thru and the train whistle nearly blew our ears out!
We left and took an easy drive on a nice highway for about 60 miles ( a hop-skip-and jump for us!) to Little Rock and directly to his Archive sponsored Museum...It is in what was a former Industrial area...and alongside the Arkansas River...and next to a large old brick private railroad station that belonged to a now defunct company...It is now a School sponsored by the Clinton Foundation...and an other interesting fact is that there is an adjacent 3 sectioned draw bridge type bridge next to the Museum that was built an d operated exclusively by the company...there are plans to rehabilitate it to use it asd a foot bridge for tourists who desire to cross the river aqnd visit other Little Rock Museums in the area...
The Museum is quite unusual in appearance,,,supposedly to represent "a bridge to the 21st Century"...It is covered by glass panes with the upper panes covered by perforated aluminum panels that are somewhat translucent because of the perforations...It is large..raised on straight columns appearing as sort of stilts..and long and rectangular in appearance..It is surrounded by rectangular lawns in rigid rectangular areas with walkways separating them..and with geometrically placed young trees about them...In my opinion, it is not particularly attractive, and rather industrial in appearance...
Inside it was somewhat the same..the exhibits were placed in stright lines with the basic architectural supports being intentionally visible...and some of the photographic images were diifcult to visualize because of the harsh glaring daylight entering thru the walls...there however was a very interesting view of the River and Downtown area thru the perforated aluminum panels....All the exhibits identified with the very positive actions of Clinton as President..and portrayed him in every successful manner...There was also a section displaying Hillary's activities as well as his Vice-President, Al Gore...Probably since most of the activities portrayed being non-historical in timing to us, and with such a contemporary bare presentation of the building, we were not able to gain that warm, and reverential sensation of history in this instance . Of course there was a very good short documentary presented in the small theater.
There is a trolley like bus that was included in the tour that takes you from the front of the Museum into the down town section to allow you to visit the gigft shop/book store location...we took the opportunity and purchased books etc..and then returned to the Museum and our van.

I neglected to mention that just prior to reaching the Museum I stopped a short distance away and made a reservation in a hotel ..and upon entering, I exchanged "Hello's" with Wolf Blitzer and his wife!

After leaving the Museum we met with Richard Shreiber, Shula's sonwho has lived in Little Rock for 35 years! we had dinner together...and then he graciously took us for a tour of the city, including the Governor's Mansion and his own personal very lovely home....His wife and 2 sons unfortunately had previous engagements and we were not able to meet them...It was a very pleasant and warm re-union...and greetings were extended both ways to all our kin!...Then, it was time to return to the hotel and BED!...Tomorrow we are off to Nashville and the Hermitage!