Bush library an embarrassment?
Out of Dallas today comes odd news that some of the faculty at Southern Methodist University – alma mater of First Lady Laura Bush and sole finalist in the bidding for the location of the George W. Bush Presidential Library – worry that the new library could damage the university’s reputation, and some are demanding a referendum.
Apparently they are worried about academic freedom in the midst of a new big-money institute attached to the library conducting political research there some day. And then there is that group of Methodist ministers who have mounted an online petition drive in an attempt to convince SMU to drop its plans for the presidential library -- “as United Methodists, we believe that the linking of his presidency with a university bearing the Methodist name is utterly inappropriate.’’
Many in SMU's faculty are against the proposal. Many Methodist ministers are against it.
I personally feel Bush does not deserve a library, but is it actually possible that he won't get one because no one wants it? With all his rich friends and supporters, that seems unlikely, but it would be so poignantly funny.
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