Green light comes Monday for public to delve into piles of files at Bush Library
Source: Dallas Morning News
The hulking archives at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum have thus far sat as a veritable iceberg, with only a sliver being revealed through either museum exhibits or early document releases in the research room.
But the purveyors of history academics, journalists and others will soon get their first real chance to start chipping away at the repository thats tucked deep inside the complex at Southern Methodist University.
Starting Monday five years after George W. Bush left the White House the archives of the 43rd presidency become subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Researchers are expected to send a flurry of queries, online or in person, on everything from the Iraq war to 9/11 to Bushs AIDS relief program. Archivists hope theyll see the payoff from years of advance work in processing and organizing the collection.
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140118-green-light-comes-monday-for-public-to-delve-into-piles-of-files-at-bush-library.ece
DFW
(54,378 posts)Run out to the airport and fly to Washington!
TexasTowelie
(112,173 posts)or are you scared?
I hope you enjoy the rest of your visit and have a safe trip back to DC.
DFW
(54,378 posts)Actually, DC is just a pit stop to see my brother and a few friends. I'm back off to Europe on Thursday.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)scribbles... that he lost.
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)while playing himself
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Expect to find nothing incriminating in there and plenty that attempts to glorify him.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Creator of the Universe
Defeater of the Saxons
The Discoverer that the Earth Revolved Around the Sun
The Man who advised Ulysses S Grant
The Man who lead the Normandy Invasion
The Man who brought down the Soviet Union Single-Handed
The Man who cleaned out the Chicago Racketeers
The 21st Century version of Commander McBragg
TexasTowelie
(112,173 posts)No T-bagger would admit to the earth revolving around the sun--that's science, you know.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)They just don't make cartoon shorts like they used to.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)...and Garfield.
Not much there, I suspect.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)joshdawg
(2,648 posts)to display one book, "My Pet Goat"?
TexasTowelie
(112,173 posts)His memoirs will also be in the library, but I bet someone else wrote it since he is too inebriated to remember.
TxVietVet
(1,905 posts)Probably lots of conservanazi comic books also.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)I'll bet you'll just find a bunch of papers with lines through everything lol
llmart
(15,539 posts)Give me a break. Like he actually did any work. He and Darth Cheney have already destroyed the stuff they don't want anyone to see, so given that, I doubt it's "hulking".
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Crayola.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)That reminds me of the time our dog ate an earring.
We were "delving into the piles" for days.
Same thing here. Perhaps even less savory.