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  • As the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum gets ready to open in University Park, Texas, we take a look at all 13 U.S. presidential libraries across the country. Patriots, make your vacation plans.
  • Postcards of President Herbert Hoover sit on display in the gift shop at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa.
  • A clown from a history of the circus exhibit stands over two portraits of President Herbert Hoover etched in glass at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa.
  • The bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt sits in front of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y.
  • Braces worn by Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, stand in contrast to his public persona portrayed in an editorial cartoon exhibited in a changing exhibit called
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, shown in a photograph and magazine drawing with predecessor Herbert Hoover at FDR's 1933 inaugural is displayed in a changing exhibit called
  • The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum in Abilene, Kan., is a research institution containing materials documenting Eisenhower's career.
  • A statue of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is seen on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, Kansas.
  • Exterior view of the entrance to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Independence, Missouri, in the 1960s.
  • The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, designed by architect I.M. Pei in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Richard DeSorgher, of Medfield, Mass., right, examines the Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule on display behind glass at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, in Boston. The space capsule is the original flown into space by astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961, making him the second person and the first American in space.
  • The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, houses 46 million of Johnson's papers, most of them in bright red cartons stacked on four floors of the building located on the campus of the University of Texas.
  • Archivist Claudia Anderson talks about the love letters exchanged between Lyndon Johnson, then a 26-year-old congressional aide, and Claudia Alta
  • The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace is in Yorba Linda, Calif.
  • The face of President Richard Nixon is seen on Time Magazine covers at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
  • A flag flies at half staff outside the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mich. on the day after Ford's death in 2007.
  • A man looks at exhibits at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • The Carter center honors former Georgia President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
  • A visitor reads information about former president Jimmy Carter inside the Carter Museum. The Carter center honors former Georgia President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
  • Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter greet members of the press, children from Garden Hills Elementary School, and others in 2009. The Carters can occasionally be spotted at the center, where Jimmy Carter still has an office.
  • The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
  • Mourners visit the grave of US President Ronald Reagan on the one-year anniversary of his death at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in 2005 in Simi Valley, California. The museum houses more than 55 million pages of Reagan's gubernatorial, presidential, and personal papers and more than 100,000 gifts and artifacts chronicling the lives of Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan.
  • People enter the George Bush Library in College Station, Texas.
  • A visitor looks over the exhibits in the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in 1997, prior to the formal dedication on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The visitor is looking at the United Nations Ambassador section of former President Bush's career. In background is a replica of the U.S. Capitol building, which represents Bush's career in the U.S. Senate. At center are American and United Nations flags.
  • An exterior view of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • Saxophones and a portrait of Virginia Kelley, former President Bill Clinton's mother, top right, are among items displayed at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.
  • An exhibit portraying the days following 9/11 is one of the displays in the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
 

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