President of Bush's presidential library: museum will not avoid divisive episodes, such as Katrina

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/16/george-bush-presidential-library

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With the days quickly counting down on Bush's White House lease, plans for the George W Bush Presidential Library are ramping up as architects finish designs for an edifice on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas intended to burnish the president's image for the ages.

"I'm confident that people will come to change their mind about the president and some of the decisions he made," said Mark Langdale, a longtime Bush friend who heads the foundation that is overseeing the library's development. "You need time to get past the current news cycle and the prejudices and emotions of the moment."

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Langdale says the Bush museum will not avoid the most divisive episodes of the president's eight years in office, such as the administration's much-criticised humanitarian response to Hurricane Katrina.

Which is not to say, however, that those controversies might not be subject to some positive historical spin.

"There's an interesting lesson about Katrina and the limitations of government assistance to respond to big natural disasters," Langdale said. "They are acts of God, and they are tough. It's definitely a story line I would not shy away from addressing somehow in the museum."

[el_bryanto]

1. Yes - i think the Bush Museum will be very ideologically driven

And "the limits of government assistance" is a key ideological point in modern conservatism.

Bryant

[Ron Green]

2. I thought SMU rejected this POS. Somebody got paid off.

[JHB]

3. They're going to be audio-visual displays...Musical numbers...

Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly say,
I assure you, and I mean it!
Now who says I dont speak out as plain as day?
And fellow Texans, I'm for progress
and the Flag, long may it fly.
Im a poor boy come to greatness,
so It follows that I cannot tell a lie!

Chorus
Ooooooo, I love to dance a little sidestep
Now they see me, now they dont,
I've come and gone!
And ooooooooo, I love to sweep around the white steps
cut a litle swath and lead the people on!

Now my good friends, it behooves me
to be solemn and declare:
I'm for goodness, and for profit,
and living clean and saying daily prayers.
And now, my good friends,
you can sleep nights!
I'll continue to stand tall!
You can trust me, for I promise
that I'll keep a watchful eye upon you all!!!

Repeat chorus

-- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

:evilgrin:

[DS1]

4. It'll have the world's first coat bag and shoe check-in trifecta

[madrchsod]

5. as a methodist i sent in my two cents worth about that library

i`m encouraged to see they will not alter history.

[arcadian]

6. They plan to flood the basement to create a Katrina static display.

It will also double as the Abu Ghraib display when they let faulty wiring fall into the waist deep water shocking museum goers while a large hooded man tries to duck them underwater.