Bush Library Coverage

[Water Pony]

Langdale named Bush Library Foundation chief

By: Mark Norris, Editor In Chief, [email protected]

Posted: 11/13/07

President Bush announced Friday that current Costa Rican ambassador Mark Langdale will be president of the George W. Bush Library Foundation effective Jan. 1, 2008. Langdale will oversee planning, operations and construction of the library.

The announcement was made without official confirmation that the library will be built at SMU. It has been almost 11 months since the library search committee entered into exclusive negotiations with SMU.

"We're making progress every day," SMU President R. Gerald Turner said, adding that SMU and the library committee are still trying to work out the details of a contract that would bring the library complex to campus.

Langdale was appointed ambassador in 2005, but previously spent 16 years as president of the largest hotel management company in Latin America. During Bush's second term as governor of Texas, he was the chair of Texas' Department of Economic Development.

Langdale was also a "Pioneer" for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, part of a group of people who pledged to raise $100,000 for his election effort.

"Ambassador Langdale brings strong leadership skills to the library effort," Bush said in a prepared statement issued on Friday.

Langdale will work closely with the Bush family and the library committee led by Don Evans. His more notable responsibilities will include fundraising for the complex and working with the National Archives.

"I'm anxious to supervise the library foundation to develop a presidential library that will give historians access to important documents and information about the 43rd U.S. President," Langdale said in the statement.
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[Water Pony]

Whether you are for or against the Bush Library, the rationale for research and debate on the merits (mistakes) of George W.'s presidency is the reason and opportunity for all Presidential Libraries.

This column from Kathleen Parker makes the case for reviewing all the events for the last 6-7 years from a position in the future. Interesting.

As a Center for discussion on the importance and, perhaps, patience on taking a long term view of the issues facing the US and the world, the Library can serve everyone, despite their political persausion.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... 652.column

[jtstang]

Whether you are for or against the Bush Library, the rationale for research and debate on the merits (mistakes) of George W.'s presidency is the reason and opportunity for all Presidential Libraries.

This column from Kathleen Parker makes the case for reviewing all the events for the last 6-7 years from a position in the future. Interesting.

As a Center for discussion on the importance and, perhaps, patience on taking a long term view of the issues facing the US and the world, the Library can serve everyone, despite their political persausion.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... 652.column

Library is fine. No Policy Institute, aka Dubya cheerleading foundation at SMU.

[perunapower]

Whether you are for or against the Bush Library, the rationale for research and debate on the merits (mistakes) of George W.'s presidency is the reason and opportunity for all Presidential Libraries.

This column from Kathleen Parker makes the case for reviewing all the events for the last 6-7 years from a position in the future. Interesting.

As a Center for discussion on the importance and, perhaps, patience on taking a long term view of the issues facing the US and the world, the Library can serve everyone, despite their political persausion.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... 652.column

Library is fine. No Policy Institute, aka Dubya cheerleading foundation at SMU.

It won't be a Bush Cheerleading Camp. It will be an institute that focuses on the issues with which the Bush administration is concerned, just like the Carter Institute at Emory University.

Read this open letter from 4 SMU professors that know a lot more about the Library/Institute than us outsiders.

http://bushlibraryblog.wordpress.com/faculty-referendum/faculty-letter-in-support-of-library-institute/

[jtstang]

It won't be a Bush Cheerleading Camp. It will be an institute that focuses on the issues with which the Bush administration is concerned, just like the Carter Institute at Emory University.

Read this open letter from 4 SMU professors that know a lot more about the Library/Institute than us outsiders.

Right. I'll see your four and raise you 50.

http://www.petitiononline.com/120/petition.html

[perunapower]

It won't be a Bush Cheerleading Camp. It will be an institute that focuses on the issues with which the Bush administration is concerned, just like the Carter Institute at Emory University.

Read this open letter from 4 SMU professors that know a lot more about the Library/Institute than us outsiders.

Right. I'll see your four and raise you 50.

http://www.petitiononline.com/120/petition.html

I don't really get their reasoning. How would this institute inhibit free thinking and academic nonpartisanship? No one is requiring the faculty and the institute agree on every detail. I'd actually rather they didn't agree. That discord would spark intelligent debate on political policy that this university just doesn't have.

It is my understanding that this institute would be like the institutes at Stanford and at Emory. These institutes focus on the issues that were of particular interest to their respective President. They aren't candidate factories. They promote political opinions on a focused group of issues.

I completely side with the faculty if the afore mentioned points are not the case. If this institute is conservative candidate grooming station, then it will not be satisfactory for the university. If, in the highly unlikely case, that the institute encroaches upon the university, then that is unacceptable.

I just find it hard to believe that either of these will be the case. If both the institute and the university can peacefully and independently coexist in an academic atmosphere like they do at Stanford, then the institute should be put in place.

[NavyCrimson]

"...If this institute is conservative candidate grooming station, then it will not be satisfactory for the university..."

And that includes the liberal side as well. Right?

A "Presidential Library" is just that - a Presidential Library. Get over it & get on.

The Hoover Library at Stanford is one of the best in the world & that would be the model to shoot for.

[friarwolf]

If the institute becomes a "Bush Cheerleading Camp", it will render itself irrelevant........If by some chance it becomes a respected institute for studies obviously with a conservative slant, then it's a good thing. If it becomes a respected institute for studies with a balanced view, then it's a big win for the University.

In a somewhat related matter, the student body is for the most part, conservative in nature. So who is pitching a fit over this? The liberal wing of the faculty and of course, all the Bush haters......Big surprise.........

Bottom line, the library and the accompanying institute is a good thing for the University. And yes, if Hillary chose to bring her library and institute to SMU and Bill hauled his double wide down here to set up shop beside the Bush Library, I would be saying hell yes to that as well................

[perunapower]

"...If this institute is conservative candidate grooming station, then it will not be satisfactory for the university..."

And that includes the liberal side as well. Right?

A "Presidential Library" is just that - a Presidential Library. Get over it & get on.

The Hoover Library at Stanford is one of the best in the world & that would be the model to shoot for.

Of course. It doesn't need to groom conservatives or liberals. It needs to be a place of intelligent debate and research over the issues that plague us today.

[72mustang]

Hoover is not a Presidential Library

[NavyCrimson]

Your kidding. I thought it was. Anyway, it's a great think tank of great minds of wisdom like Thomas Sowell, et al.

[NavyCrimson]

Of course. It doesn't need to groom conservatives or liberals. It needs to be a place of intelligent debate and research over the issues that plague us today.

A presidential library is just that. A presidential library presenting his administration, etc. Wouldn't "Slick Willy's" be the same. LOL

Get over with it & get on with life & substance.

[Arkpony]

Check out the Clinton Library in Little Rock and see how they treated the Monica Lewinsky affair and impeachment. All one can say is that it got mentioned, just as I'm sure Teddy will mention Chappaquidick in his upcoming biography..but just mention.

[MrMustang1965]

from the DMN:

Millions of records, photos and artifacts tracing the presidency of George W. Bush will move from the White House to a white North Texas warehouse by early 2009 under a recently awarded government contract.

The six-year, $12.7 million contract, overseen by the National Archives and Records Administration, will turn Lewisville's 1725 Lakepointe Drive into the hub of work to organize and catalogue a massive cache of presidential materials before they move into a permanent library.

"It is expected that the collection will be greater than the Clinton holdings, which consist of over 30,000 cubic feet of textual and non-textual holdings," National Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper said by e-mail Wednesday. "The electronic component will also be greater than the Clinton administration holdings."

The project includes office space, support space and storage. In soliciting bids earlier this year, federal officials requested a 60,000-square-foot space within 25 miles of North Central Expressway at Lovers Lane in Dallas, near Southern Methodist University.

But National Archives officials have said the location isn't confirmation that SMU will be the site of the planned Bush library and policy center. Last December, SMU was named the sole finalist for the project, and the school remains in negotiations.

[Water Pony]

Sunday, December 23, 2007

By David Doerr

Tribune-Herald staff writer

Boosters of the proposal to bring the George W. Bush Presidential Library to Baylor University have largely moved on to other pursuits after more than a year of waiting for the final word on its location.

Southern Methodist University entered into exclusive negotiations with the committee charged with selecting the site to build the presidential library on Dec. 21, 2006. The president hasn’t handed down a final decision, but all but the last nail appears to be in the coffin for Baylor’s bid to win the competition.

Tommye Lou Davis, Baylor’s director of the Bush Library Project, said the university’s efforts to attract the library have been on hold since the exclusive talks began with SMU.

“I have no idea what is going on, and I really don’t have an update,â€