Last Week Tonight Last Night
If you didn't see LAST WEEK TONIGHT with John Oliver last night, the Main Story was on presidential libraries. It's a fun story -- interesting and often very funny. And it deals with an excellent, very valid point as part of its focus: how little financial control on these libraries and how then can be used for legitimate bribery. Though its other main point is a bit overwrought -- how there is not great control over the material and these are more archives and museums than actually libraries. First, they're correct, although a presidential library is hardly the sole source of historical research, and second, whether it's a library-museum or archive is a pretty thin line to dance on and care greatly about -- especially when the first definition of "Library" in my WordWeb dictionary is: "A building that houses a collection of books and other materials."
Still, it's a fun, good report, within reasonable limits...
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