Brought to the Hoover Library by cspan in partnership with mediacom. The curator shows us the additional artifacts that accompany each of the portraits. Today we are at the Herbert Hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa. We are in the museum portion of the building. This is our temporary exhibit, which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit from cspan. And then adding something personal from each man to show Something Different about them. We think of them as about the president s, but we want to show them as human beings as well. And that is an interesting aspect. Some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an extensive process trying to find sites associated with the different people and getting them to agree to loan us items. We did with other president ial libraries and the archives, and then everything from the National Park service to individual historica
rogers. i always think it s a kick in the pants. mom calls it, dad s inappropriate relationship. larry: so you ve become friends? absolutely. i respect president clinton. i do. he was the first democrat to win a campaign since jimmy carter. that s not an easy task. democrats have lost more than a jamaican bobsled team. but i do, i admire president clinton. he was the first president not to improve health care, the first president not to put an end to lobbyists, the first president not catch osama bin laden. larry: have you been to his library? yes, i have. i have, yeah. i understand they call it the william jefferson clinton library. it sounds better than bubba s bucks.