"I don't know if he's mad at President Clinton, or just mad," Pryor says of Pfeifer.

In an interview, Pfeifer says he is simply using the apartment issue as a legal device to fight the city in a battle over municipal funding for land acquisition.

Current plans for the presidential center place the library building directly on Pfeifer's land. Now all that stands there is a warehouse that Pfeifer used to rent out but that has recently been sitting empty.

"With the threat of being evicted, not many people want to go to the trouble of moving into the property with the possibility of having to move back out," he says.

Pfeifer says he was offered a fair price--$400,000--for his property. But he objects that the city of Little Rock is using funds from the municipal parks department to partially finance the purchase of property for the library. The other landowners whose property was condemned have settled with the city. But Pfeifer has been holding out.

If the presidential library foundation reimburses the city and pays for the land acquisition itself, Pfeifer says he will withdraw his suit. But no ongoing talks are planned between Pfeifer and the foundation.

The other lawsuit, filed by a retired hospital employee who lives in Little Rock, also objects to the parks department funding.