The Last Campaign

My book about presidential libraries, "The Last Campaign," comes out March 16.・anthony-clark.com・facebook.com/anthonyclarkwriter・@anthonyjclark・Unless otherwise noted, all photos, videos & text Copyright Anthony J. Clark.

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Former President Reagan invites then-President Bush to attend the opening of his presidential library, April 26, 1991.

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US Capitol, Congressional Prayer Room.

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In the aftermath of his campaign defeat, President George H.W. Bush receives a kind invitation from former President Jimmy Carter to tour the Carter Center and the Carter Library. Such a visit would not only allow the men to discuss the planning and operation of these institutions, but perhaps to share their common experiences of having served in the most exclusive club in the world (and having lost their re-election bids).

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The Rayburn House Office Building courtyard, US Capitol complex.

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United States Capitol Building, Old Hall of the House, North Door, Looking South.

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Georgia State Senator Hugh Carter makes the case to his first cousin, President Jimmy Carter, that the Carter Presidential Library should be built in Plains/Americus instead of Atlanta.

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United States Capitol Building, West Front/Plaza, September 20, 2007.

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Allan Hoover, son of the former president, making plans to separate the private Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation from the soon-to-open government institution, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

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United States Capitol Rotunda, West Door, flanked by statues of Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln; the POW/MIA and US flags; and a relief sculpture, Preservation of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas, 1606, by Antonio Capellano (one of three depictions of Powhatan's daughter in that room).

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#ThrowbackThursday #Record: 1939 Secret Service plan for FDR to walk into hotel.

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A #TuesdayEdition of #FridayPhoto: lantern, cast-steel ceiling and chandelier in the Old Hall of the House (now National Statuary Hall), United States Capitol Building. Copyright 2011 Anthony J. Clark.

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#TuesdayVideo: President Bill Clinton leads a personal tour of the White House.

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Rotunda of the United States Capitol; fresco "Apotheosis of Washington" by Constantino Brumidi; sculpture of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon.

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"I don't go for this blackmail" - LBJ on White House staff taking their own files when they leave.

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Staircase in the United States Capitol Building, leading from the original Senate vestibule (outside what is now the Old Supreme Court Chamber) to the Small Senate Rotunda.

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The Crypt of the United States Capitol Building, directly underneath the Rotunda, the dome and the Statue of Freedom.

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The George W. Bush Library devotes a great deal of its museum to September 11/the War on Terror, but only twelve feet to Hurricane Katrina & the financial crisis.