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Bush Library at SMU Given Final Blessing
The battle over the future site of President Bush's future presidential library and public policy center ended today as the South Central Jurisdiction of the Untied Methodist Church voted to allow the center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Some ministers and faculty of the private parochial university have been battling the Bush Foundation's plans to open the center on campus, on the grounds that some of the policies of the Bush Administration run counter to Methodist teachings. Opponents filed two petitions: one to ban the entire complex, and the other to allow the library but not the think tank planned to go along with it. Both motions failed, clearing the way for construction of the project.Rev. Tex Sample, an opponent of the complex, said that the church has made a "big mistake" in voting to approve the library. "What they've done is subsidize the political goals of George W. Bush," he said. But SMU President Gerald Turner disagreed, saying the votes were a mere formality. "Today's action simply reaffirmed that all processes were followed."
Presidential libraries and scholarship centers can be a boon to a university's bottom line. Conferences and meetings attract visitors to the campus, and exhibits and displays bring tourists. Then there is the prestige factor of having a major center devoted to the study of a presidential administration housed on the campus. Once the libraries are constructed, they are maintained and operated by the National Archives. The George W. Bush library will make SMU one of three schools in Texas with a presidential library affiliation. The other two are Texas A&M, where President George H.W. Bush's papers are housed, and the University of Texas, which hosts the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
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(Page 1 of 1)S Garey10:22PMJul 17th 2008
Wow! The first presidential library filled with comic books.
Garjaya11:07PMJul 17th 2008
and coloring and connect the dots book too.
Tex2:27AMJul 18th 2008
There will be an entire shelf reserved for copies of "The Pet Goat."
james hardin3:19AMJul 18th 2008
SMU just lost its prestige as an educational center.
David S.3:49AMJul 18th 2008
I don't think it is appropriate for any presidential library to be on a university campus. It reeks of that president wanting to shove their agenda on students. But coming this administration, there is little left that shocks any of us anymore.
Real Voice of Reason4:51AMJul 18th 2008
God forbid if there's ever an Obama presidential library...
It would probably be named with the motto "How we beat down the whites and helped Islam take over America while raising taxes on cars, gas, oil, houses, water, phones, computers, appliances, income...oh, and destroying morals and values." And you wouldn't find an American flag anywhere in the place.
james6:56AMJul 18th 2008
So the only way you can comment on the failure of Bush is to change the subject, and tear down obama, who is not a failure?
tfcrow7:35AMJul 18th 2008
My Pet Scapegoat will be the book there.
philip11:13AMJul 18th 2008
theBUSH library is an insult to Presidents who FURTHERED the US, made it strong and a beacon of democracy for the world; NOT a man who CREATED wars, Scared his people with fake threats, destroyed the economy and created a recession by spending EVERY america ndollar overseas while bankrupting the country
John11:40AMJul 18th 2008
Lets not Forget that the Bush Library will have a picture of the fine job it did in Katrina. HaHa.
PJ11:49AMJul 18th 2008
They call these PIMPS - Puppets Imitating Ministry Posed as Saints. God is not mocked! Shame the sham, filled with scam, caught on cams of all their plans, a polluted Land. He'll ram the damned for crimes at hand, and expose the crooks, as nations shook with oil cooked, the profits took, an embarrassing look in WORLDWIDE BOOKS! Their gain is lost, their souls it cost, the banking boss, control it sought, stripped of all, no one to call, their pride did fall, though stocks stood tall. So stand and cheer, all can hear, the enemy fear, with wailing tears, as judgment nears. Our God will reign, the children sang, the enemy hanged, in open plain. The world did rest, He accomplished His best, as the end did come, evil's done, God's Victory won, all Nations sung!
gshort30115:16PMJul 18th 2008
Like wow man, I wonder how much it cost Bush to buy off the university?
j8kesn8ke6:27PMJul 18th 2008
I guess if they're gonna have an accounting of all his screw-ups and how he ran this country into the ground it'll take a whole library, possibly two. At least you won't have to have a library card to get in. Just show up wearing a " I'm with stupid " t-shirt and they'll know who you are. There will be free WMD's ( Words of Mass Dumbness ) for all those that attend.
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Seymour10:21PMJul 17th 2008
Wow! The first presidential library filled with comic books.