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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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