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Move to block Bush institute at SMU fails: Complex should be complete by 2013

A long-shot attempt to block a George W. Bush policy institute on the Southern Methodist University campus fell short at a regional United Methodist meeting in Dallas.

University president Gerald Turner praised the delegate votes July 17 to affirm deals that SMU and the church’s Mission Council signed in 2007 with the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation to build a library, museum and policy institute on leased land.