2.The 43rd U.S.president George W.Bush stepped back into the spotlight when a library and museum dedicated to him opened to the public on May 1.the George W.Bush Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated (33)on/in the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas,Texas.The library and museum is plentiful with exhibits on the historical events."About 3000,000visitors (34)are expected (expect)",said the library and museum spokesman.
Presidential libraries are not libraries in the traditional sense.People cannot go to the George W.Bush Presidential library (35)to check (check) out a book.They are facilities that preserve documents and items of a president and his act of governing.(36)whatever is preserved at a presidential library is available to the public to see and study because presidential libraries are public property (37)belonging (belong) to the American people.
The Presidential library system began in 1939when President Franklin Roosevelt,during
(38)his/the second term in office,donated his personal and presidential papers to the government.Up until that point,presidential papers were destroyed,sold for profit,ruined by poor storage conditions,(39)or were simply lost to the history.
Roosevelt believed that presidential documents were an important part of the nation's heritage.He also donated a potion of his estate in Hyde PARK,New York,(40)where his library and museum would be built.This began a tradition that would carry on with every president that followed.