Aside from reports that he’s taken up painting, we haven’t heard much from George W. Bush over the last four years. This absence from the limelight was largely at the wishes of the former president.
But with the George W. Bush Presidential Center opening on May 1st, he is back in the press. According to Tom Benning this new presence in the media is a reluctant one. Tom is a Staff Writer at the Dallas Morning News who recently interviewed President Bush.
And what can we expect to see in the library itself? Brendan Miniter, Senior Editorial Director of the George W. Bush Institute, offers a few sneak peeks.
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