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For Obama's Presidential Library Early Bets Are On University of Chicago

By Paul Bedard

February 24, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

Here's something else for President Obama's crowded inbox: picking a school to host his post-presidential library and museum. "John F. Kennedy started thinking about his during his first year," says Benjamin Hufbauer, author of Presidential Temples : How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory. Early betting is that Obama will favor the University of Chicago, where he taught law.

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Obama compared himself to Abraham Lincoln many times during his campaign, and he made his presidential announcement in Springfield Illinois, and also he spent time here in the State Senate. Why not Springfield?

Len of IL 1:37AM April 30, 2009

The University of Hawaii would be a better choice. It's a public rather than an elite private school. His mother and father met there; his brother in law teaches there; his sister got her PhD there.

Plus, it would suggest to the world that the Obama presidency is thinking global, not locking itself in the heartland.

Robert Perkinson of HI 3:20PM March 05, 2009

Jesus Christ, who cares?!? Is that the most substantive story U.S. News can report on?

It's not as though we're fighting two wars and our economy is collapsing while Washington feverishly prints a trillion more worthless dollars.

Tim Kunkel of IA 12:28PM February 24, 2009

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