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March 25, 2004

400 Texas Mayors Want Bush Library at Baylor

By Byron LaMasters

The Houston Chronicle reports:

Some 400 Texas mayors want the George W. Bush presidential library to be built at Baylor University, school officials said today.

Baylor is one of several institutions seeking to be the site of the library, a decision Bush is expected to make after leaving office.

[...]

In October, 100 mayors said they endorsed Baylor as the library site. A month later, Baylor formed a 50-person national steering committee for planning and fund-raising in hopes that the library will locate there.

Waco is about 20 miles from Bush's ranch in Crawford, and 80 percent of the state's population is within 200 miles of Baylor, the state's oldest university and the world's largest Baptist university with nearly 14,000 students.


I don't really care where the Bush Presidential Library is, as long as it isn't at the University of Texas. UT rejected Bush after all, and of course, we already have the LBJ presidential library.

The list of the mayors is here.

Posted by Byron LaMasters at March 25, 2004 09:26 PM | TrackBack


Comments

Isn't a GWBush library an oxymoron?

Posted by: Jason Young at March 25, 2004 09:58 PM

I'm glad to see that not a single mayor from my home county of Gillespie, not any of the surrounding counties of Llano, Mason, Kimble, Kerr, or Kendall are on that list, and that has to be some of the most Republican counties in Texas.

Posted by: Karl-T at March 26, 2004 01:30 AM

Given the amount of serious reading he does, you could probably fit all his books in some spider hole near Crawford.

Posted by: Tim Z at March 26, 2004 08:55 AM

Won't they have to wait until he's colored them both in? Ker-ching!

Posted by: lord marmite at March 26, 2004 09:31 AM

It would be pretty stupid for UT to refuse a presidential library if available, Byron. Love him or hate him, these four years are going to be very important (and very studied) in the future. Having the collection of presidential papers for this period at UT would be a major coup.

Posted by: blue at March 26, 2004 09:36 AM

the collection of presidential papers for this period at UT would be a major coup.
Dubya, with an assist from the Supremes, already has been the source of one coup, back in 2000.

Posted by: Tim Z at March 26, 2004 02:46 PM

Well, hopefully there will be a duplicate set of papers next year in the Democratic Attorney General's office in preparation for the prosecution.

But if the damn thing HAS to be in Texas, I can't think of a more appropriate place than Baylor. Can someone remind me why Connecticut didn't want it?

Posted by: Kevin_in_SA at March 27, 2004 12:40 PM
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