And when these are the opening paragraphs in a New York Times article on your new presidential library, don't you think that you would get even more nervous as you ponder your Legacy?


Like the 42nd presidency itself, the new Clinton library here sprawls across eight years of big ambitions and small details and does not omit, but hardly dwells upon, the sex scandal that led to Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, to be dedicated on Thursday, is a futuristic glass-paneled rectangle cantilevered over the banks of the Arkansas River, evoking Mr. Clinton's metaphoric "Bridge to the 21st Century." It is a reflection of a man who famously crammed just about everything into his speeches and his presidency and has now crammed them or their facsimiles into this shrine he hopes will shape his legacy.


I think it's time to announce that when I retire from the Presidency, or from the Ombudsmanship, I will not build one of these silly monuments to myself, nor ask the taxpayers to maintain it.