At a rally in Nevada, former President Donald Trump mocked late President George H.W. Bush for having his presidential papers sorted in a converted bowling alley and Chinese restaurant. But that distorts what happened with Bush’s papers.
The early 1990s episode involving Bush’s presidential papers was largely forgotten until recent days, but it received a modicum of media attention at the time.that was reprinted in newspapers around the country in June 1994 documented what happened to Bush’s papers from the time he left the White House in January 1993 to the 1997 opening of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
Someday, this will be the treasure of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M; University. But for now, it’s just pile upon pile of Bush fodder for the archivists. The Bush library did not respond to an inquiry for this article. But the National Archives sent a statement to PolitiFact that said that "reports that indicate or imply" that the presidential records of George H.W. Bush or other past presidents "were in the possession of the former presidents or their representatives after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading.
Holzweiss said that once the alleys were removed and the floors smoothed at the College Station complex, "it was perfect, it was like a warehouse. They just built a secure space within to house the classified material."Although the converted space in College Station may sound silly on first hearing, it was not some shoddy facility with broken doors and windows.
More important, experts say, is the context in which the documents were brought to the two locations. Put simply, the operation for the Bush papers was conducted according to standard procedures, with the National Archives fully involved. Trump’s was not.
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