# Siting Dubya's Presidential Library **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 11, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556 "2007-01-11T15:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/1 "2007-01-11T15:25:35Z")
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**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/2 "2007-01-11T15:27:19Z")
How about at that elementary school where he read “My Pet Goat”? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/3 "2007-01-11T15:29:53Z")
😕 Isn’t it a bit soon to be picking a site? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/4 "2007-01-11T15:32:21Z")
Don’t forget to turn all the texts up-side-down in his library 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/5 "2007-01-11T15:47:31Z")
Jeb’s Florida, for sure. A swamp sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/6 "2007-01-11T16:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 😕 Isn’t it a bit soon to be picking a site? [/QUOTE] Nah, they’ve got to [evict the tenants and tear down the buildings](http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=tenant) before they can even get started. The impending ‘judgement of history’ requires that the project be done quickly, if it is to be done at all. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/7 "2007-01-11T16:31:01Z")
Ah, well, in that case, the ideal site is . . . the Green Zone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/8 "2007-01-11T16:41:25Z")
Is this a debate of some sort, or the first ever GD thread in history to exist simply to (gasp) be critical of the President? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/9 "2007-01-11T16:55:09Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] Nah, they’ve got to [evict the tenants and tear down the buildings](http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=tenant) before they can even get started… [/QUOTE] Hmmm. I don’t understand your link. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/10 "2007-01-11T16:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Is this a debate of some sort, or the first ever GD thread in history to exist simply to (gasp) be critical of the President? [/QUOTE] The debate is, where should the library go? Where do you think, my dear **Bricker**? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/11 "2007-01-11T17:09:25Z")
It should be in an undisclosed location, so the think tanks connected to the library won’t hurt anybody. I have to agree that there’s no point to this thread. This is an IMHO thing, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/12 "2007-01-11T17:15:41Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Hmmm. I don’t understand your link. [/QUOTE] That’s because it was the wrong link :smack: [Lawyer in SMU case evicted, calls move ‘hostile’](http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-vodicka_11met.ART.West.Edition1.3e4ce8f.html) > [@](#): > > It took two U.S. marshals and an eviction notice, but lawyer Gary Vodicka is finally moving out of the condominium complex that could be the site of the Bush presidential library. Things are getting nasty down there: [Report of mysterious break-in on presidential library site](http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa070110_lj_harris.29258ef0.html) > [@](#): > > The last two residents of the University Gardens condominiums got orders to leave this morning. > > But not before a mysterious break-in last night. > > Three days ago Gary Getton showed us some of his legal papers in his ongoing fight with SMU over eviction from the condo he rents. > > Last night, he says his property was burglarized. > > All that was stolen, he says, were his documents. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/13 "2007-01-12T04:22:00Z")
Bush has started his second book. He finished coloring the first. ps it is supposed to include a conservative think tank. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/14 "2007-01-12T15:15:33Z")
Put it in New Orleans. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/15 "2007-01-12T15:35:27Z")
I like the cut of your jib, **Johanna**! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/16 "2007-01-12T16:06:55Z")
Make it a living library. Put it in Crawford, Texas. Right smack in the middle of W’s ranch. Visitors can watch W clearing brush, with an occasional fall from a Segue for comic relief. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/17 "2007-01-12T22:40:44Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] ps it is supposed to include a conservative think tank. [/QUOTE] !!! Would that be a first? Does **any** presidential library have a think-tank attached? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/18 "2007-01-13T00:35:51Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] !!! Would that be a first? Does **any** presidential library have a think-tank attached? [/QUOTE] This might be the first with a sink-tank. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/19 "2007-01-14T18:51:28Z")
Well, if we must have something debatable in this thread, how about: Is the name George W. Bush Library oxymoronic? To take the OP seriously: somewhere in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556/20 "2007-01-14T18:59:17Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] Is the name George W. Bush Library oxymoronic? [/QUOTE] Like it or not, Laura is a librarian. So am I. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siting-dubyas-presidential-library/387556.md?page=2)