This is President Clinton's Presidential Library.
Southern Methodist University in Dallas (click here) announced last week that the university will be home to President Bush’s $200 million presidential library. Bush’s library, however, will be shrouded in secrecy.
An executive order Bush signed in 2001 “gives presidents and their families more control over presidential papers” and “could result in material being censored” from the library. The order also gives Bush “the right to veto requests to open any presidential records.”
The secrecy efforts are already beginning. In a press conference yesterday, President Bush admitted that his library would likely take foreign donations but said he would consider keeping the donors’ names confidential...
21 April 2013By Melissa Repko
More than 300,000 donors (click here) from around the world gave $500 million to take the George W. Bush Presidential Center from concept to reality.
And about half of the money came from Texans.
The Bush Center will be the state’s third presidential library. The LBJ Presidential Library and School of Public Affairs opened in 1971 at the University of Texas in Austin at a cost of about $18 million....
...The names of donors who gave more than $1 million are etched on an entryway wall. Other donors are listed in the “Freedom Registry,” which visitors can scroll through on computer screens.
Not all donors will be publicly recognized, however. While the Bush Foundation must release general financial information as part of its nonprofit status, it is not required to disclose donors’ names. Some Bush Center donors have asked to be anonymous.
“Some people don’t want their name on a wall so that they get bothered by others,” Langdale said....
