Universities vie for Obama's presidential library

HONOLULU — Barack Obama hasn't even finished the second year of his first term in the White House, but officials with two universities that are interested in building his presidential library are already positioning themselves to win the Hawaii-born president's favor.

The University of Hawaii is well into early preparations — including preliminary searches for potential sites, talks with National Archives officials and deliberations on what if any new academic center might accompany an Obama library and museum.

The University of Chicago, located in the city where Obama's political career began, signaled an interest a year ago but is saying very little now.

And Obama is saying even less. Asked to discuss Obama's views about a presidential library, a


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Now as I recall, there was question if anyone would even want bu$h's library and now they are fighting for a sitting Presidents library who could still be in office for 6 more years? :rofl:

.... it's a LOT harder to move hundreds of bankers boxes than it is a case of comic books. ;)

(Sorry if I'm using jargon, cardboard "bankers boxes" are what records are often stored in)