Plans expand for Bush library in Dallas

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

Plans expand for Bush library in Dallas
Published: Feb. 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM

DALLAS, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Organizers say plans for George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas have expanded and it will be twice as large as his father's presidential library.

The proposed library complex at Southern Methodist University has grown to 207,000 square feet, about the size of a Wal-Mart Super Center, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.

Looking for design tips, engineers and architects for the younger Bush's library last week toured the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University at College Station.

Architects and officials from the National Archives have been meeting regularly in preparation for the first major review of the younger Bush's library, museum and policy think tank's preliminary plans.

"It's like a cake being baked in the oven. It's still changing," said Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation, which aims to raise $300 million for construction and endowment of the complex.

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[Donnachaidh]

1. Freudian games -- Chimpie must have been frightened by

seeing a naked Poppy when he was a child.

[onehandle]

2. Are they adding a "Hooters?" nt

[8 track mind]

16. That and a "Brown Derby"

[DCKit]

25. And a pResidential ball pit between the slots and monster truck arena.

Seriously, the size of a WalMart super center? Hell, just leave it empty and it could be a to-scale model of *'s brain. It's not as if they're going to put the truth of the past eight years on display, so they may as well stick with what they know.

[Bicoastal]

3. Twice as large as his dad's, and twice as crappy...

...doesn't that say it all?

[Demeter]

15. Two Parking Spaces!

[RobertDevereaux]

4. Well they'd better...

...put a file in that cake, cuz the sumbitch is gonna need it!

[MineralMan]

5. That much space for his book? His one book?

What're they going to do with the rest of the space? A titty bar?

[KamaAina]

32. You forgot about the one he was coloring

[niyad]

6. WHAT??? a cake in the oven? these morans don't know much about baking, do they?

[GentryDixon]

7. It's always been about going one better on the old man.

[wogget]

8. Gotta make room

For all the shoes that are going to be mailed to it.

[Judi Lynn]

11. You've got that right! The display area will look like a shoe store!

Welcome to D.U., wogget.

[jmowreader]

9. I wonder...

are they going to put the Viking he went to the USS Abraham Lincoln on in the middle of the library?

I figure you'll go in there and you'll see...

the airplane under the Mission Accomplished banner--or at least a close facsimile

the statue of Saddam we toppled

the gallows they dangled Saddam from

a little vial. "This vial could contain enough Deadly Lethal Nerve Agent to kill up to 10,000 people, and it's the reason we liberated Iraq." Standing next to it will be a guy we pay $15 per hour to rip down signs that read, "yeah, and it's more Deadly Lethal Nerve Agent than we ever found in Iraq."

an empty filing cabinet labeled "Bush Administration Papers That Have Been Released Into The Public Domain."

a shelf containing all the books he claimed to have read on his vacations. None will ever have been opened.

[Bozita]

10. They need more room to store all those bulk-purchased Ann Coulter books?

[Judi Lynn]

17. They'll also have a ton of those dandy Lynne Cheney "Patriotic Primer" books.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. What are they going to put in there

with everything blocked due to "Executive Privilege"? A mini-ranch complete with golf cart and shooting-range?

[KansDem]

13. Why not make it a "BookMobile"-type of library?

Then it could travel all over Texas!


Here comes the George W. Bush Presidential Library!
...sorry, "My Pet Goat" is already checked out!

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Twice as big as his father's.

How Sigmund Freud!

[SnowCritter]

18. How many copies of

"My Pet Goat" will a building that size hold?

[go west young man]

19. They must be expanding the Crime section.

And also rewriting the History section.

[mfeher1971]

20. How much shelf space does "My Pet Goat" need?

Just wondering.

[damntexdem]

21. What happened? Did Dubya find a special sale of coloring books?

If it's the size of a WalMart, will Dubya hire his daddy as a greeter?

[MilesColtrane]

22. Can't wait to see the diorama of Bush fellating the board of ExxonMobil.

[katty]

23. Featuring framed: My Pet Goat

[Wizard777]

24. They should have Halliburton build it. It'll cost 300 billion and never get finished

[madrchsod]

26. they cannot find the funds for the first version of the libary

and they want to expand it? what papers are they going to put in it that anyone could research? everything will be classified like his father`s

[glinda]

29. If they build it the homeless & jobless should move into it. That represents his History.

[Jazzgirl]

35. The last I heard is they had only gotten about

3 million total so far. I can't imagine anyone wanting to donate a dime to anything he would call a "library".

[Best_man23]

27. Damn, that is one huge latrine

A place to send used shoes and Enron stock certificates.

[onethatcares]

28. why doesn't walmart just donate one of their empty POSs?

??

[santamargarita]

30. The 7th worst President in American history doesn't deserve a library!

At least they acknowledge that he's worse than Hoover

[Demit]

31. "Look on my library/museum/policy think tank, ye mighty, and despair!"

[sofa king]

33. Twice the size, four times as expensive, infinitely worse, and sorely lacking in knowledge.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

34. I thought they were out of money and that SMU just said no.

Enh, a girl can dream.

[Cleita]

36. So Pharoah is building his monument to himself.

[tanyev]

37. I wonder which will be larger, the impenetrable vault or the gift shop?

[struggle4progress]

41. It's in Big D, the town that worships commerce, so I'd guess it'll mostly be gift shop

A quick review of Big D architectural tastes suggests that it will look cheap and ugly but will cost a fortune to build

I'd guess big mirrored glass box, cleverly positioned to sun-blind rush-hour drivers

[marshall]

38. I guess he wanted to make sure his was bigger than Clinton's

Clinton's is 150,000 square feet, but then isn't it built in a remote urban location on land that used to be a train station's location? And it's surrounded by a park. Bush's library is in prime real estate.

[No Elephants]

39. The Bush Library, Museum and Think Tank? Gotta be five or six good jokes right there.

[struggle4progress]

42. The W Think Tank: they throw you in -- and then burn you for being a witch if you thwim

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

40. "Policy think tank?"