Opinion piece in the Washington Post
Excerpt: But why should each president get his own library? Multiple libraries are wasteful, costing taxpayers millions of dollars every year. And they’re undemocratic, because they allow our presidents — not the people who elected them — to define their legacies.
Presidential libraries aren’t mentioned in the Constitution or in any of our other founding documents. They date to 1938, when Franklin D. Roosevelt — midway through his second term of office — announced that he would personally construct a public archive in his native Hyde Park, N.Y.
Full piece:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/does-every-president-need-a-separate-library/2015/01/09/344dfa52-966e-11e4-927a-4fa2638cd1b0_story.html
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