LITTLE ROCK, ARK. ? The final leg of a journey for tons of documents from the Clinton presidency will be the shortest — a mile across downtown Little Rock from a former automobile dealership, where they’ve been stored for nearly four years, to their permanent home.

More than 200 truckloads of Bill Clinton’s presidential records and materials are being moved to the Clinton Presidential Library on the east side of the downtown area.

“People in Little Rock are going to see a lot of moving vans over the next few weeks,” said Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton Foundation and lead tourism promoter for the $165 million Clinton Presidential Center scheduled to open Nov. 18.

The head of Clinton’s nonprofit foundation says the monthlong trek will be a dress rehearsal for a crush of tourists he expects in four months or so.

“It’s a preview of how we’ll need to deal with the tour buses and school buses, so we need to get used to it.”

The total payload will be about 630 tons of documents, photographs and gifts, the largest collection in American presidential history. White boxes are filled to the brim with 80 million pages of official documents, waiting to go to movable stacks in 25,000-square-foot rooms in the brand new archives building.

Some classified materials are designated for a special room in the archives’ basement, lined with 24 rows of stacks with 11 shelves each and sealed with a CIA-approved vault door. Little Rock police will be summoned to escort Clinton’s top-secret records.