Bush Library

Southern Living, Nov 1997

He was a young pilot in World War II, a West Texas oilman, a Congressman, an ambassador to the United Nations, and finally Vice President then President of the United States.

The life of George Bush comes to College Station, Texas, November 6, when the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum opens at Texas A&M University.

A few numbers sketch out the size and scope of the center: 69,000 square feet, 38,000,000 pages of documents, more than 1,000,000 photographs, thousands of hours of audio and videotape, and a price tag of $22 million in private funds.

The site in College Station, 95 miles northwest of Houston, sits on 90 acres known as the Bush Presidential Library Center. Along with the library and museum, the complex contains Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service, its economics and political science departments, the Center for Presidential Studies, the International Center, the Presidential Conference Center, the Presidential Library Foundation, and living quarters and an office for President and Mrs. Bush.

The public will be granted access to the Presidential records of the Bush administration, available through the Freedom of Information Act, beginning January 20, 1998.

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum: 1000 George Bush Drive West, College Station, TX 778420410; (409) 2609552. Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $3 adults, $2.50 seniors and students.