BY THE NUMBERS


Location: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas


Cost: Over $300 million Site: 23 acres Size: 226,560 square feet, including museum, library, and foundation Archive: Over 70 million pages of text records Photographs: Nearly 4 million Emails: Over 200 million Total data: Approximately 80 terabytes Themes: Freedom, responsibility, opportunity, and compassion Classrooms: Two


HONORED


George and Laura Bush beam outside of the library that bears his name.


Honoring the Nation’s 43rd A special tribute to America’s leader during some of its darkest days.


BY DAVID A. PATTEN I


t was america’s third president, thomas jef- ferson, who speaking of the presidency famously observed, “No man will ever bring out of that of- fi ce the reputation which carries him into it.” More than any recent president, it was the


misfortune of former President George W. Bush to live out the Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting


times.” Bush presided in the Oval Offi ce during what may be the most tumultuous period since the Viet- nam era. The 9/11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that liberated 60 million people, the devas- tation of Hurricane Katrina, and the economic melt- down — few presidents in U.S. history have endured a zeitgeist of continual crisis equal to that of what Bush went through. The Bush presidency, by any measure,


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