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The museum at the Clinton Presidential Library has begun offering a new option–tours guided by former President Bill Clinton.
The former president won't be doing the guiding in person, though. Instead his voice will narrate a recorded audio tour.
Museum officials say Clinton wandered the halls of his presidential library late at night, recording his thoughts on some of the major milestones of his presidency. The tour was Clinton's idea and is a first for presidential libraries, said Jordan Johnson, a spokesman for the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Visitors who pay an extra $3 will get a device shaped like an oversized cordless phone. Each exhibit corresponds with a number, and the visitor can punch in the exhibit number to hear Clinton's thoughts and memories on the issue.
In the audio tour, Clinton says the Oval Office was "the best place in the world to work." However, he had another favorite spot in the White House: his private office.
"I restored it to look the way it did after the Civil War and I brought in a desk, which was Ulysses Grant's cabinet table," Clinton says in the tour.
"And I would go in there, often after Hillary went to bed, or late at night (and) play my music, and that's where I did my reading and thinking and that's where my daughter would find me late at night when she called me from Stanford."
At an exhibit on Clinton's impeachment hearings–"The Fight for Power"–Clinton describes the era as an ideological battle that went overboard.
"They went into overdrive fighting me," he says on the tape. "They weren't accomplishing anything, just banging away. Then they did what people who care too much about power do. They overdid it."
