George W. Bush Presidential Library
Supporters of George W. Bush are aiming to raise $500 million to establish the George W. Bush Presidential Library at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.
While presidential libraries are run by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, establishment costs are have to be raised privately. Part of Bush's plan is to also establish a think tank, which has the working title of Institute for Democracy, to promote "compassionate conservatism, the spread of freedom and democracy throughout the world and defeating terrorism."[1]
According to one Bush supporter, the think tank, which will be modelled on the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, aims to financially support conservative scholars "money to write papers and books favorable to the President's policies." The proposal that SMU host a think tank promoting Bush's agenda has encountered opposition from staff which, Inside Higher Ed noted, "strikes many professors as antithetical to a university's academic values."[2]
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- ↑ "At prospective Bush library home, uncertainty about linking politics with the university", Associated Press, January 10, 2007.
- ↑ Scott Jaschik, "Scholarly Archive or Ideological Center?", Inside Higher Ed, December 18, 2006.
External links
- Thomas M. DeFrank, "W library in record book: $500M center would be priciest for a Prez", New York Daily News, November 27, 2006.
- Scott Jaschik, "Scholarly Archive or Ideological Center?", Inside Higher Ed, December 18, 2006.
- Bill Berkowitz, "Dubya's Tower of Babel: With an expected $500 million from a handful of megadonors, George W. Bush's 'truest believers' plan the mother of all presidential libraries and conservative think tanks", Media Transparency, January 10, 2007.
- "At prospective Bush library home, uncertainty about linking politics with the university", Associated Press, January 10, 2007.
- Jon Ponder, "Disaster: Bush Says He’ll Continue Meddling in Middle East After His Presidency," Pensito Review, February 4, 2007.
- Holly Bailey, Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas, "Bush's Truman Show," Newsweek (MSNBC), February 12, 2007 (issue).
- Campbell Read, "Institute will put SMU's science programs at risk", SMU Daily Campus.com, February 22, 2007.
- Bill Berkowitz, "Methodists battle George W. Bush over SMU Library & 'Freedom Institute'", Media Transparency, October 5, 2007.
- Andrew J. Weaver, "Karl Rove's Trojan Horse among the SMU Mustangs", Media Transparency, June 19, 2008.
