To the Point
Another President, Another Presidential Library
America's 43rd President now has the country's 13th presidential library. The George W. Bush Presidential Center houses the bullhorn from Ground Zero, the pistol from Saddam Hussein's spider hole and a statue of two favorite dogs. How much is there on missing weapons of mass destruction or Wall Street bailouts?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readAmerica's 43rd President now has the country's 13th presidential library. The George W. Bush Presidential Center houses the bullhorn from Ground Zero, the pistol from Saddam Hussein's spider hole and a statue of two favorite dogs. How much is there on missing weapons of mass destruction or Wall Street bailouts? Do Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or Karl Rove get much attention? Every president since FDR has a similar mix of historical fact and self-serving propaganda assembled on his behalf. We look at the contents, the architecture and the symbolism of Bush's Center in Dallas and at the role of presidential libraries in our political life.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Wayne Slater
journalist and author
Christopher Hawthorne
Chief Design Officer, Mayor's Office, City of Los Angeles; former architecture critic at the Los Angeles Times
Benjamin Hufbauer
University of Louisville