Updated, Aug 26, 7:00 p.m.
Today, Levees.org kicked off a campaign to draw attention to the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and Library. The facility – which operates on $6 million of taxpayer support every year – barely mentions any federal failures relating to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The exhibits don’t mention the failed levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers. And the exhibits describe the federal response as one of compassion and heroic rescue.
This is not fair to the taxpayers and doubly not fair to the survivors of the flooding on August 29th. American curators and archivists have a duty to record both the good and the bad.