Green light comes Monday for public to delve into piles of files at Bush Library

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Dallas Morning News

The hulking archives at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum have thus far sat as a veritable iceberg, with only a sliver being revealed through either museum exhibits or early document releases in the research room.

But the purveyors of history — academics, journalists and others — will soon get their first real chance to start chipping away at the repository that’s tucked deep inside the complex at Southern Methodist University.

Starting Monday — five years after George W. Bush left the White House — the archives of the 43rd presidency become subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.

Researchers are expected to send a flurry of queries, online or in person, on everything from the Iraq war to 9/11 to Bush’s AIDS relief program. Archivists hope they’ll see the payoff from years of advance work in processing and organizing the collection.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140118-green-light-comes-monday-for-public-to-delve-into-piles-of-files-at-bush-library.ece

[DFW]

1. I'm in Dallas now, and the house is near SMU. I think on Monday, I'll..........

Run out to the airport and fly to Washington!

[TexasTowelie]

7. Are you trying to avoid the traffic jam

or are you scared?

I hope you enjoy the rest of your visit and have a safe trip back to DC.

[DFW]

18. I'm terrified. You guessed it.

Actually, DC is just a pit stop to see my brother and a few friends. I'm back off to Europe on Thursday.

[defacto7]

2. I expect lots of tic tac toe

scribbles... that he lost.

[SkatmanRoth]

12. Tic Tac Toe scribbles that he lost

while playing himself

[jmowreader]

3. Bush is probably best at scrubbing his own background

Expect to find nothing incriminating in there and plenty that attempts to glorify him.

[rpannier]

5. George W Bush

Creator of the Universe
Defeater of the Saxons
The Discoverer that the Earth Revolved Around the Sun
The Man who advised Ulysses S Grant
The Man who lead the Normandy Invasion
The Man who brought down the Soviet Union Single-Handed
The Man who cleaned out the Chicago Racketeers

The 21st Century version of Commander McBragg

[TexasTowelie]

6. Almost.

No T-bagger would admit to the earth revolving around the sun--that's science, you know.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. !!!

They just don't make cartoon shorts like they used to.

[rpannier]

23. Quite

[Earth_First]

4. I suspect many of us already own the complete leather bound works of Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side..

...and Garfield.

Not much there, I suspect.

[pangaia]

15. There's a lot more in Calvin & Hobbs than in the Shrub liberarie.

[Berlum]

8. "You can't have my goat book until I finally finish reading it." - xCommander George AWOL Bush (R)

[joshdawg]

9. How large a building is needed

to display one book, "My Pet Goat"?

[TexasTowelie]

10. Make that two books.

His memoirs will also be in the library, but I bet someone else wrote it since he is too inebriated to remember.

[TxVietVet]

13. I'll second that.

Probably lots of conservanazi comic books also.

[pam4water]

14. K&R

[7wo7rees]

16. Finally! A behind-the-scenes look at all those shady meetings...

[mdbl]

17. All the documents are redacted

I'll bet you'll just find a bunch of papers with lines through everything lol

[llmart]

19. "hulking archives"??????

Give me a break. Like he actually did any work. He and Darth Cheney have already destroyed the stuff they don't want anyone to see, so given that, I doubt it's "hulking".

[Orsino]

20. Spoiler:

Crayola.

[sakabatou]

21. Isn't this the place that tell you you're wrong if you don't invade

[Bigmack]

22. "...delve into piles...

That reminds me of the time our dog ate an earring.

We were "delving into the piles" for days.

Same thing here. Perhaps even less savory.