A minor point on presidential libraries

Former President Bill Clinton's Presidential Library is formally opening today in Little Rock, Arkansas, with all of the media fanfare that is expected to be associated with such an event. Reading an AP article on the library today, I was struck by this paragraph: "Another highlight is the only full-scale replica of the Oval Office in a presidential library. Administration officials took thousands of photographs of the office to re-create the placement of every statue, photo and award."

A few years ago, while in southern California, I had the pleasure of visiting the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and saw what I thought had been billed as a full-scale replica of the Oval Office. So I checked the library's website, and sure enough, "[The] full scale replica of president's Ronald W. Reagan's Oval Office is furnished just as he left it in January 1989. Pause and listen to the president's own voice describing how he used this historic room." (Hopefully, visitors to the Clinton library will not be treated to Clinton's voice describing how he used the study off of the Oval Office). There is also an Oval Office replica at former President Carter's library.

It may only be a small point, but with all of the attention the opening of Clinton's library has received, you would think that a reporter writing a story about it could check these details.