George Bush Presidential Library & Museum
College Station, Texas
Photos and text © Gleaves Whitney 2005
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The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, Texas, is one of 11 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Its collections include 38 million pages of official and personal papers, 1 million photographs, and 70 thousand museum artifacts. -
Hauenstein Center Leadership Fellows Brian Flanagan (middle) and Melissa Ware (right) met with Former President George H. W. Bush at his museum.
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This Studebaker is what young George and Barbara Bush drove from Connecticut to the Permian Basin in West Texas after World War II.
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Brian and Melissa read up on Bush's successful Congressional race in 1966. In Washington, DC, he represented his adopted hometown of Houston.
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Although a New Englander by birth, George H. W. Bush adopted Texas early in his adult life and has called it home ever since. "I am a Texan and an American," he said. "What else could a man want?"
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This sculpture outside the Bush Library, of horses jumping over a crumbling Berlin Wall, evokes the epochal change that took place in November 1989 early in Bush's presidency.
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This painting off the Rotunda of the Bush Library shows the president's closest advisors assembled in the Oval Office: Dick Cheney (left), Jim Baker, Brent Scowcroft, and Colin Powell.
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The 41st and 43rd presidents of the United States. Only one other father-son presidential duo exists in American history: John Adams (our 2nd president) and his son John Quincy Adams (our 6th). All four were born in New England.