March 7, 2008

Southern Methodist's Bush-Library Deal Mollifies Some Critics, but Doubts Persist About Think Tank

By DAVID GLENN

Southern Methodist University released the terms of its agreement with the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation last week, three days after completing a contract to house the president's official library and museum.

After more than a year of negotiation and debate on the campus, the deal "seems very anticlimactic," says Benjamin H. Johnson, an associate professor of history who has been one of the project's most visible skeptics.

Now that the papers have been signed,

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