“The Bush circle has done so much damage to every institution they’ve touched, it would be naive not to worry about the damage they could do to SMU.”
You Think?   
James Traub is to explore George W. Bush’s Fantastic Freedom Institute to be at Southern Methodist University in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, and National Treasure Greg Mitchell has the disgruntled money quote in a Huffington Post teaser.
Give Me Land, Lots Of Land 
Southern Methodist University had a gleam in its eye over George W. Bush’s Presidential Library even before Bush was president, according to lawsuit depositions. University officials and Bush hanger-on Harriet Miers in a dispute over land SMU bought for possible Bush Library use.
Former condo owners bought out by the university claim they were underpaid, with the land’s value going up with the Library announcement.
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Keeping His Own Counsel  
Karl Rove is finally answering some questions before a Congressional committee, but his ex boss continues to dodge testifying in a dispute over land bought for the George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University.
SMU bought out condo owners on land originally intended for the Library, and some former owners claim they would have gotten more for their property had they known the Bush Library loomed.

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The University claims they bought the land just cuz, that the Library happened along later, and anyway the Bush site has moved north of the disputed property. The former owners are curious what SMU told Bush and when, but the Dallas retiree says he shouldn’t be vexed with such petty litigation.
Bush’s relationship to SMU isn’t recent or distant. They worked him for the Library throughout his administration, and the land was purchased $35 million donated by Roy Hunt. Hunt was also a major Bush campaign donor and intelligence board appointee, and acquired dubious oil leases in Iraq in the waning days of the Bush era.
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind    
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The recent Dallas Morning News warning of the George W. Bush Presidential Library‘s will to obscurity has been proven in life!
The Scourge of Baghdad, legendary Washington Post defense reporter Thomas Ricks was rightly appalled and amused at a New York Times report that the living monsters producing FOX’S “24”series are now touting their carbon-neutralness.
” This show should be relegated to an exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, perhaps in the discussion of whether you can win a war for your values by undermining them.“
The Foreign Policy Blog comment’s snap and verve are somewhat undermined by Ricks linking to one of the joke Bush Library sites which tower above the real one in Google searches.
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Former President Bush is showing a little ankle, dropping by a political science class at the future home of his Presidential Library – Southern Methodist University                                                     
Country First?   
Bush’s first hired speech will be to foreigners, albeit in semi-American Canada.
The ex-president travels to exotic Calgary, Alberta March 17th in what is threatened to be the first of ten speeches this year. Bush crony, Bush Library director and ex-Commerce Secretary Don Evans warns Bush “has to earn a living,” despite his pension, Bush his ‘n her book deals and the remains of his dubious baseball fortune, so we can look forward to more of this.
We must brace ourselves for the inevitable Moonie-funded-through-exotic-passthroughs events which are sure to come.