What presidential libraries have you been to?

[bagelman]

I haven't been to any yet, the McKinley one is nearby but they always seem to be an hour before closing whenever we're in the area. Some of these include or are primarily known for their musuems, others are just libararies, and some are elitist libraries that aren't open to the public. Unoffical ones not run by the National Archives and Records Administration, ie before Hoover, are in italics.

[Crumpets]

Just JFK's, and I was pretty young, so I don't remember it all that well.

[Blair]

Plan on going to both JFK's, and George H.W bush if I ever make it to the states

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

None, but if I was a travellin' man, it'd be pretty cool to go to the Nixon one.

[angus]

Herbert Hoover.  That's the only one I've been to.  I was the invited keynote speaker at an event a few years ago at West Branch  Iowa and the trip took less time than I had anticipated, so I had some time to kill.  There's really not a whole hell of a lot of diversions in West Branch, Iowa, so I found the Herbert Hoover library pretty quickly, and gave it the standard perusal.  The blue-haired woman working the desk gave me a discount, so my entrance was only five dollars rather than the usual ten dollars, but being as how that's five dollars more than I usually pay to enter libraries, or any other places, I was a bit put off by the admission fee.  It is set up like a museum, with a suggested walking tour, one which can be done in about ten minutes, but I stretched it out to twenty.  Mostly it had photos of Herbert, either as a young man or as a middle-aged guy coping with feeding a country during the great depression, and there were a few mock-up sets.  There was one room devoted to his doting wife, Lou.  We Americans do love our First Ladies, don't we.  Lots of Hoover quotes on the wall.  Overall, I'd have to say that it was a life-changing event.  Before visiting that library I had always associated the word hoover with a vacuum cleaner.  After the visit, I'm more likely to think of the president.  The vacuum cleaner hasn't been completely displaced, but now I usually ask, "do you mean the vacuum cleaner or the president?"

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Lincoln's, and I would love to go to Obama's once it opens.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

None, but I'd like to see some of them.  The Ford one is the closest to me (Michigan FTW!) , so I'll probably start there.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

None, but if I was a travellin' man, it'd be pretty cool to go to the Nixon one.

Yeah, that is the only one I want to go see.

[retromike22]

Just Reagan and Nixon's. I did visit Kansas City twice but I somehow managed to not visit the Truman Library

[publicunofficial]

This nation needs a President from the Pacific Northwest so I can have a presidential library built within driving distance.

[Del Tachi]

Carter and Grant

The Ulysses Grant library is in my hometown

[Mr. Smith]

Wilson.

[Nutmeg]

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter

[Intell]

Only Nixon's.

[Crumpets]

The one for Bush in Dallas. It was a disturbing experience.

I hear you can virtually decide not to go to war in Iraq and have some Bush official come on the screen and tell you you're being soft on terrorism, or something?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Just FDR's, but only because I was in Hyde Park when my daughter went to the Culinary Academy there.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Just Ike, though I'd like to visit at least the important ones in my lifetime, if not all of them.

[Thunderbird is the word]

So far only Hyde Park though i'd definitely like to see more of them.