Love this quote

“While Dallas rushes headlong into the future, the Bush center seems stuck in a past of its own invention" - Mark Lamster, on the George Bush Presidential Library.  This could be said of public architecture in many a Dallas suburb, in fact, it could be said of most single family residential construction.  I guess the urge to associate with tradition and history reflects a desire for legitimacy.  I don't find it that unusual that a president that studied history and got to shape historical events, though perhaps not as he desired,  should now labor to write a version of history which suits his needs.