CNN - various reports - 1993-02-06 (late night/overnight) - 2 of 2
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[0:00] It is. It's a one:1 scale. Most people
[0:02] are impressed. It's a smaller room than
[0:04] most people think it is.
[0:05] >> The library serves as a resource center.
[0:08] >> What you'll really find is very few
[0:09] books, but an awful lot of paper. Uh we
[0:12] have the papers of Jimmy Carter as
[0:13] president, which amount to about 26
[0:15] million pages.
[0:16] >> Special displays tell of significant
[0:18] events and issues. The Iranian hostage
[0:20] crisis and building relations with
[0:23] China. Unlike most presidential
[0:26] libraries, the man honored spends a lot
[0:28] of time here. He often conducts meetings
[0:30] concerning the social programs he
[0:32] supports, such as the Atlanta Project
[0:34] and Global 2000. The Carter Center has
[0:37] become a place dedicated to building for
[0:39] the future. While visitors learn about
[0:42] the past,
[0:43] behind me here at the Carter
[0:45] Presidential Center, 50 flag poles with
[0:48] the flags from all 50 of the United
[0:50] States. You know, George Washington is
[0:52] the only president who didn't live in
[0:54] the White House. Today, his home at
[0:56] Mount Vernon is the most visited
[0:58] historic home in the United States
[1:00] besides the White House. Washington
[1:02] lived there both before and after his
[1:04] presidency.
[1:07] [music]
[1:10] He's the picture of the US presidency.
[1:13] In the United States, he's called the
[1:15] father of the country. What you don't
[1:17] know about George [music] Washington,
[1:18] you can find out at Mount Vernon. More
[1:21] than a million tourists step inside
[1:22] these walls every year, getting [music]
[1:24] the inside scoop on a life that's been
[1:26] shrouded with myth. People do come here
[1:29] and want to know where he choppe