Organizations: The Presidential Caper

The graceful, spacious mansion stands imposingly just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in the select neighborhood of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It bears a most impressive title: The Library of Presidential Papers. Yet it is a library without a librarian. About the only original presidential document there is a John F. Kennedy letter valued at $175 and apparently signed by his secretary. The building also boasts a presidential bedroom in which no President has ever slept or seems likely even to visit. The organization's letterhead carries a seal so similar to that...

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