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fD WACOTPlBiiMr.iiFPairt WEDNESDAY. NOV. 21. 2001 Mayor hopeful gets offers plans for Bush library eldei Bush support Orlando Sanchez la In a runoff election for Houston mayor with Incumbent Lee Brown. 7 Candidate bidding to become 1st Hispanic, to fill Houston spot i having a Bush library.

Other possible Texas connections include Baylor University; with Bush's ranch at Crawford just to the west; Southern Methodist University, Laura Bush's alma mater, In Dallas, where the couple spent many years; the city of Midland, where Bush began his business life and which was his last stop before heading to Washington for his inauguration; and Texas ASM University at College Station, the locale for his father's library. As for UT Bush's daughter Jama attends UT-Austin, brother Jeb is a graduate and nephew George P. is a law student Bush received his undergradu-j ate degree from Yale University and his MBA from Harvard University. i Presidents pick the site for their presidential libraries, and private money pays for construction costs. Monday.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday UT is one of several interested institutions but said "it's way too premature to. be talking about where a Bush library may or may not be located." Faulkner's three-page letter and accompanying maps detail a carefully thought-out proposal. Though Faulkner said be cant promise the state site, his letter, states that he's already spoken with Gov. Rick Perry about a state and university partnership for the presidential library. UT is already home to the Lyndon Baines, Johnson Library and Museum, which opened in 1971 and bouses the papers and memorabilia of the Democratic president No two presidential libraries are in the same city, but Faulkner believes the LBJ Library shouldn't preclude UT from President has yet to commit to location; Baylor also In running The Associated Press AUSTIN George W.

Bush was president for only a few hours when University of Texas presi-' dent Larry Faulkner began lobbying to host his presidential library. Faulkner sent Bush a letter in August outlining two possible locations for a presidential library in Austin, one in the northwest on UT-owned land near the J. Pickle Research Campus, the other on state-owned land downtown between UT and the Capitol Complex. Faulkner got a noncommittal thanks-for-the-interest response from the White House in a letter dated Oct 23, according to documents received by the Austin American-Statesman on 4 In 1997, the former president endorsed the1 son of his commerce secretary for mayor. Rob Mos-bacber lost in his race against Lee Brown, the: incumbent who is running now against Sanchez.

This is not new for me in a sense," Bush said. "We don't do it a lot, but it's my city. We've lived here, since. 1960 and I believe we need new leadership." Bush said his endorsement shouldn't be seen as a slight against Brown. are not against the mayor, with whom; very candidly we Bushes have a pleasant relationship," Bush told reporters in the lobby of his west Houston office.

"But sometimes yon look at the bigger picture." Brown said a Republican endorsing another Republican is no surprise to him. The only thing Bush and Sanchez have in common is that they are both Republicans, he said. "There are great differences between former President George Bush and Orlando Sanchez," said Brown who topped a field of six and edged Sanchez in an election last month but failed to take more than SO percent of the votes, setting the stage for the Dec. 1 runoff. Brown said Sanchez has declared business losses each of the last five years and while serving as a city councilman skipped 41 of 43 budget meetings during a two-year period.

"I don't think this is an appropriate time to respond to all that," Sanchez said. "Our campaign has been a positive campaign." By PAM EASTON Associated Press v' I HOUSTON Cuba ii-born Orlando Sanchez, bidding to become Houston's first HJpanlc mayor, yon the backing Tuesday of former President George Bush and his wife, Barbara. "Ineverthoughtlwooldseethe day that I would be standing here with the 41st President of the United SUtes and his lovely wife1, endorsing my candidacy for mayor of the city of Houston, the fourth-largest city in America," Sanchez said. "That can only happen in America and that can only happen in Houston, Texas." The endorsement wasn't Bush's first at the local level. n.t'if?."T..

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