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.

This Studebaker is what young George and Barbara Bush drove from Connecticut to the Permian Basin in West Texas after World War II.

Brian and Melissa read up on Bush's successful Congressional race in 1966. In Washington, DC, he represented his adopted hometown of Houston.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

Warren Finch, director of the George Bush Library and Museum, took the Hauenstein group on a tour through the stacks on the second floor. Because of a congressional act, the Bush Library is the first truly public presidential library.