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Friday, February 22, 2008
Bush: Y’all come to my library
The Southern Methodist University trustees today did the formal vote that formally approved a campus location for the George W. Bush presidential library, which will include a library housing documents and artifacts, a museum and a public policy institute.
Should be quite a place, the president says.
“When he dedicated the first president library, President Franklin Roosevelt said that he hoped the public would use it to ‘learn from the past’ and ‘gain in judgment in creating their own future,’” Bush said in a letter to SMU President Gerald Turner. “I hope the same will be true of this library. I look forward to the day when both the general public and scholars come and explore the important and challenging issues our nation has faced during my presidency - from economic and homeland security to fighting terrorism and promoting freedom and democracy.”
The current goal is to open the museum and library in five years.
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White House: Times regularly bombshells GOP nominees
The White House, through spokesman Scott Stanzel, today joined the conservative chorus criticizing The New York Times for its Thursday story linking John McCain to a female Washington lobbyist.
Says Stanzel:
“Certainly that’s a story that has received a lot of attention. I think a lot of people here in this building with experience in a couple of campaigns have grown accustomed to the fact that during the course of the campaign about seemingly on a monthly basis leading up to the convention and on a weekly basis after that The New York Times does try to drop a bombshell on the Republican nominee. And that is something the Republican nominee has faced in the past and probably will face in this campaign. And sometimes they make incredible leaps to try to drop those bombshells on Republican nominees. So that is something we are aware of and that unfortunately is a fact of life.”
“Having been involved in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns I can tell you there are many times that we had this sense in both of those campaigns.”
Does the Times ever do this to Democratic candidates?
“I’m not saying they never give that kind of treatment. But we see it is pretty regular treatment of the Republican nominee.”
Care to offer examples of previous anti-GOP “bombshells” from the Times?
“Quite frankly, I’d rather not spend my time helping negative stories from the past appear in the news again.”
