timesonline.co.uk - 12/28/2008
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As President George W Bush eyes his legacy, his presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, threatens to be a white elephant. Bush has bought a $3m ( 2.05m) house in a Republican enclave 10 minutes away from his proposed library and hopes to play an active role in ...
thinkprogress.org - 12/28/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
The London Sunday Times suggests today that the
cost of President Bush’s library may exceed its usefulness,...
writing that the library is “ in danger of becoming a white elephant .” The Times notes that while the National Archive uses ...
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Bush library may become a ‘white elephant.’
Think Progress —
... The London Sunday Times suggests today that the cost of President Bush’s library may exceed its usefulness, writing that the library is “in danger of becoming a white elephant.” The Times notes that while the National Archive uses taxpayer dollars to pay presidential library staffers to maintain presidential papers, an ...
Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos —
... , the London Times is reporting that the Bush presidential library is going to be just another boondoggle, particularly since Bush has decreed that he doesn't have to make public any number of documents from his administration. ...
Bush's Library
Booman Tribune —
I've mentioned this before, but I just can't see why anyone will want to go to George W. Bush's shitty library . I think Bush is creating it because that is just what presidents do these days, but I don't think he gives a crap about making the inner workings of administration a subject of objective study. Oh wait! He cares about that not happening. So Bush is going to create a library that doesn't have any of the key documents that scholars will want to see. Instead, we'll be offered video footage of Barney the dog and presidential turkey pardons and Commander Codpiece in ...
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