U.S. Rep. Mike Conway (R-TX) has secured $25,000 for a “reconnaissance survey” of the Bush family home in Midland, Texas, the first step toward turning the 1,400-square-foot property into a unit of the National Park Service, the Abilene Reporter News reported Monday.
Conaway of Midland requested the study “on behalf of proud Texans who wish to see the home of two American presidents elevated to national status and become part of the National Park System” in an Aug. 27 letter to now outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
George W. Bush Childhood Home Inc. is a nonprofit founded by Midland residents…
Among NPS units are birthplaces and boyhood homes of former presidents including Bill Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson and George Washington. The 2012 budget for the William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope, Ark., was about $294,000.
The Bush family lived in the home for four years, from 1951-1955. Congress would ultimately vote on whether to make the home a National Park Service unit.
