Lending Library
OPB is pleased to offer the Lending Library as a benefit to Cornerstone Society, President’s Council, and Wyllis Johnson Legacy Society members as well as OPB Business Partners. Now you may enjoy viewing or listening to your favorite programs at your convenience.
Members and Partners may borrow up to 2 items at a time for up to 21 days, at which time you simply drop the item in the mail using the envelope and postage provided. If the item you have selected is currently on loan, we will be happy to reserve it for you. We hope you enjoy this service.
Your Request List

How to use our online request form
  • · Click "Details / Add to list" to get a full description of a program.
  • · If you decide you would like to check out a program, click the "Add to Request List" button at the bottom of the detail page.
  • · You may continue browsing and add up to two items to your request list.
  • · When you are ready to check out, click "Check Out" from the bottom of your Request List.
  • · On the next page, select your OPB membership status from the pull-down menu.
  • · Enter your shipping/contact information and any comments you may have.
  • · Click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page and your request will be on its way.
For more information or to select by phone:
If you're a Business Partner, please e-mail Lori Bernet or call 503.293.1950.
If you're a Cornerstone Society, President's Council or Wyllis Johnson Legacy Society member, please e-mail Holly Forrette or call 503.293.1956.

Lending Library

A Service for OPB Cornerstone Members and Business Partners

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - NIXON(Available)
NIXON tells the complete story of the rise and fall of one of our most powerful and controversial presidents. From his boyhood in Yorba Linda, California, to his over-whelming victory in the 1972 election and his resignation just two years...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - Nixon(Available)
Richard Milhouse Nixon was a man of contradictions, grand visions and petty grievances, an anti-communist crusader who used the power of his office to reach for a bold vision of world peace - and to undermine his political enemies.
(2 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - REAGAN(Available)
When he left the White House in 1989, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the century. The program follows Reagan's life from his itinerant boyhood in Illinois to his battle with "communist agitators" in the Screen Actors...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - THE KENNEDYS(Available)
THE KENNEDYS explores the building of the Kennedy legend. This production is the first comprehensive documentary look at the shaping of the Kennedy fortune and dynasty by the family's patriarch and master builder Joseph P. Kennedy. His expectations...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - THEODORE ROOSEVELT(Available)
Brash and aggressive, Theodore Roosevelt embodied America at the turn of the century. He was a world authority on birds and large mammals, a cowboy, soldier, explorer, scientist-and president by the age of 42. Born into wealth, Roosevelt...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - TRUMAN(Available)
TRUMAN traces the unlikey rise of a gritty American original. Taking over after Franklin Roosevelt's death shocked the nation, Truman faced some of the biggest crises of the century. He would end the war with German, use the atomic bomb...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - The Kennedys(Available)
From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street and then in government, through John Kennedy's presidency to Edward Kennedy's fall at Chappaquiddick and eventual withdrawal from the 1980 presidential race, The Kennedys explores the building of...
(2 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - WOODROW WILSON(Available)
WOODROW WILSON tells the story of a professor who became one of America's greatest presidents. It's the tale of an emotionally complex man who craved affection and demanded unquestioned loyalty. And it's a fascinating portrait of a towering...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Truman(Available)
A farmer, a haber-dasher-gone-bankrupt, an unknown politician from Missouri - Harry Truman was the least prepared of all the men who had held the office of president of the United States. Yet he proved he was up to the job with a stubborn...
(2 VHS)

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AMERICAN MASTERS: Sketches of Frank Gehry(Available)
Frank Gehry loves to sketch. It is the beginning of his architectural process. From Gehry's sketches flow the models, one after another, each a refinement, that will eventually become finished buildings unlike any others in the architectural...
(1 DVD)

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AMERICAN PASSAGES: A Literary Survey(Available)
The 16 part half hour series was created to illuminate Americcan literature by connecting canonical writers with those less often taught. The programs explore works of fiction, prose, and poetry within their historical, social, and cultural...
(16 VHS)

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Advanced Mega Memory(Missing)
Kevin Trudeau builds on the foundation laid in Mega Memory to provide you with a "graduate-level" course in mind and memory power.
(1 VHS)

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