In outlining the project to prospective universities in 2005, two
officers of the foundation, Marvin P. Bush, a brother of the
president, and Donald J. Evans, said the institute would be answerable
to the foundation, not the university.
And they said:
“Part of its mission will be to further the domestic and international
goals of the Bush administration,” including “compassionate
conservatism” and “defeating terrorism.”
From The New York Times, 1/30/08:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/30smu.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Methodists Against Bush Library Force Vote
By GRETEL C. KOVACH and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
DALLAS —
Methodists opposed to a George W. Bush Presidential Library, museum
and policy institute at Southern Methodist University here are
mounting a last-ditch effort to block a nearly completed deal by
throwing the decision to a regional church conference in July.
Opponents of the project, including current and retired bishops and
faculty members hostile to President Bush over the Iraq war and social
issues, say church rules require that an agreement be submitted to the
290 elected delegates of the church’s South Central Jurisdiction.
The Rev. Andrew Weaver, a research psychologist in New York who said
an online petition drive against the project had drawn 11,200
signatures, said about 35 percent of the delegates were “progressives”
opposed to the plan.
“We need to inform and recruit 16 percent of the moderate delegates to
block the project,” Mr. Weaver said.
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