PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2005
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• Publication Date: May 22, 2001
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Truman Library
Dennis Bi l ger
Carol Briley
phone: [phone]
Eisenhower Library
David Haight
phone: [phone]
Kennedy Library
Suzanne Forbes
phone: -4-84-a f3
Johnson-Library
David Humphrey
phone: [phone]
Nixon Presidential Materials Project
Ronald Plavchan
phone: [phone]
Ford Library
Dennis Daellenbach
Karen Rohrer
phone: [phone]
Carter Library
Martin Elzy
phone: [phone]
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New Image for Carter
Tied to Library Opening
By WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT
Special to The New York Times
ATLANTA, Sept. 20 - On a wooded
hillside overlooking downtown Atlanta,
workers are putting the final touches
on the Carter Presidential Center, the
nation's eighth library complex dedi-
cated to a former President.
Built with $25 million in private dona-
tions, it will house 27 million doru-
ments from Jimmy Carter's term as
President, and a 15,000-square-foot mu-
seum in which Mr. Carter, his image
appearing on a television screen, will
offer prerecorded responses to a com-
puterized list of questions chosen by
visitors. The topics range from what
life was like in the White House to why
he did not bomb Teheran in the Iranian
hostage crisis.
But when President Reagan joins
Mr. Carter at the dedication ce o-
nies here Oct 1 it wi also what
Mr. Carter's aides describe as an im-
portant step in the emerging public
role the former President has sought to
shape for himself in the six years since
his devastating electoral defeat.
From offices inside the complex's
semicirc e r ow cylindrical build-
ings, Mr. Carter and a retinue of
schilars from ne niver-
sity will use the center as a forum to
advance a broad, nonpartisan agenda
of publi~licy concerns, such as
human righis,Tied1i?CTiunger and inter-
national diplomacy, that Mr. Carter
championed as President.
audio-visual display challenges visitors
to decide w a ey would do, i they
were President, to respo-ito a terror-
ist crisis.
On a console are four but tons: attack
with military forces, negotiate, apply
sanctions or try alloptions. The visitor
pushes a button and then a videotape of
Mr. Carte.__r appears on a television
screen to_di 1sS, for example, how
using military force would hurt the in-
terests of the United States.
Dispute Over Parkway
While work on the 30-acre land-
scaped complex itself will be com-
plet in time forth a opening which is
also Mr. Carter's 62d birthday, a 2.4-
mile, four-1__ane parkway leading to the
center remains unfinished, and is the
object of continuing local controversy.
Amid legal challenges, work on the
roadway was ped last year, al-
though Mr. Carter and his lawyers are
hopeful construction will resume soon.
"Our operations here would be se-
verely damaged if the roadway is not
Judi," Mr. Carter said, adding -Mil
traffic drawn to the center would over-
load local streets.
According to Mr. Carter's aides, the
center, set on on the crest of Cooenhill,
where General William T. She man
stood to watch the bat e~T oAtlanta, is
expected to draw as many as 600,000
visitors a year. If the projections are
? records for attendance at the Kennedy,
Of the ei rest ential library and Johnson and Ford libraries.
museum complexes, Mr. Carter's is The complex, about two miles east of
perhaps the most personally ambi downtown Atlanta, consisf5 of 3-our low
tious. It will include, for example, a rou i togs built in a semicircle,
,
center that Mr. Carter hopes will some- linked by walkways and su__ rroi=n_ a
day be used for debating and resolving 2.5-acre la a a`nd Japan=se garden.
international and domestic disputes. In addition to the useu and li-
"We i t l to make something-if; bra the center will include the o -
ferent of our library, our museum," s of the Carr-Mend H an
Mr. Carter said in an interview. "We Rights Foundation and Global 2000, an
wanted it to be a teaching renter ra her organization headed by Mr. aZ FTrthat
than a coon im t to me." is concerned with world hunger and
The completion o e center also health problems.
marks an important step in what some -George G. Sc , the a five di-
aides have called the rehabil' tivg rector of-the Carter Center, says thin
process that has taken ace in the _ffFe__?!ompIetion of the facility will pro-
years since Mr. Carter's defeat by Mr. vide "the focus for Mr. Carter's contin-
Reagan, and the hays N-g-B -;cm that uing agenda, for the issues and values
followed his handling of the Iranian that informed him before he was Presi-
hostage crisis, among other thi. dent, and continue to inform him."
In a section of the museum dealing In an interview., Mr. Carter de-
with the host - e crisis, for example, an scribed the center as "a living thing,
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1986~
The Ne* York Times/Alan S. Wei
Jimmy Carter standing by a video monitor at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta.
not only because Rosalynn and I will be
here as long as we are able to work, but
because the programs that we have are
ongoing, dealing with hunger in Africa
and child survival on a worldwide
basis, on the deep meaning and impor-
tance of human rights, on the resolu-
tion of disputes through diplomacy and
negotiation."
In the years sinr he left the Waite
House, Mr. Carter has written two
gooks and oled, along with P,PSI
-
cjenL-Ford, major scholarly confer-
ence at mo University on both the
Middle East an arms control. He is
planning another conference in
Novetit r on the future of democra-
cies in the Western Hemisp ere.
Mr Carter personally raimuch
of the 25 million to build the complex,
n in contribu-
including about 7 mil h
tions from overseas donors. Mr. Schira
said the public policyjlork of the cen-
ter also will rely on private contribu-
tions.
But the cost of maintaining the li-
brary and museum itsel will be borne
by the Federal Government. According
to the National Archives m Washing-
ton, the Government will spend about
1.1 million on the Carter librar in its
firs o erations.
Over all, the operational cost to the
Feder~overnment o en-
tial libraries will be about $13 million
next year, according to . Dr. James
O'Neill of the National Archives.
Work on the irs residential library
began in 1940 m Park, N.Y., when
a loc istorian began raising money
for a building to house President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's ppers. Since
then, libraries have been b t and dedi-
caJd to Presidents Hoover, Truman,
EissnbQwer, Kenned57 Tohnson and
Ford. Efforts are also under to
raise money for libraries for Presid
JCarte~ r Center %011 be the musMi
Oyal.Office and seleks to set the story
There are ted to t
maior issues o his (Presidency, such
Canal treaties and the secondstrategi
alms accord with the Soviet Union,
well as the avian crisis.
The-public areas include a ela
.iujform, and an a set asid
to Mr. Carter's 197 campaign for th
xhere to capture the Democratic
?residental nomination.
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5 , Z T
MAYig1985
More Foreign
Researchers
To Ike Library
Approximately 40 percent of the
researchers coming to the
Eisenhower Library here today are
fro'm'Stitside rRM"United states. ac-
cording to Dr. John Wickman, direc-
tor of the Eisenhower Center.
..This large increase in foreign
researchers is in part due to the fact
that within the past couple of years
we have opened some 300,000 papers
and other material on foreign rela-
tions during the Eisenhower era,"
he said in a talk to the Rotary Club
Friday noon.
Wickman disclosed that plans
already are beginning to take shape
for a year-long Eisenhower Centen-
nial starting in 1990.
The Library and Museum collec-
tions are continuing to grow, he ex-
plained, but some 200,000 of the well
over 20 million copies of papers are
still classified. "Strange as it may
sound the CIA, State Department
and Army are among the easiest to
work with insofar as declassification
of documents are concerned." he
said. The CIA even sent a team of ex-
perts to Abilene to go over material,
with authority to declassify much of
it as no longer secret material.
Wickman said the average stay of
researchers in Abilene is about three
or four days, although many stay for
longer periods and one "lived" here
for six months.
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