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...well as a doorway, through which a portion of a darkened room can be seen. Through the doorway, a portrait of a mother and daughter is just visible. The last photograph depicts the same scene as the first, but the woman in this photo, although she looks similar, has gray hair. She is the first woman's mother. The three photographs are joined into one long, flattened panoramic shot by the pink paisley wallpaper which forms a background for the entire scene...
...find the University's 27th president. As in the search for Rudenstine, the committee is made up of the six members of the Corporation and three members of the Board of Overseers: Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, D. Ronald Daniel, Thomas E. Everhart '53, Sharon E. Gagnon, Hanna H. Gray, Conrad K. Harper, James R. Houghton '58, Richard E. Oldenburg '54, Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur...
...George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, reveals its most generous patrons on a gray marble wall in the foyer. When the center, located at Texas A&M University, was being erected, money flowed in from as far away as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, places that had good reason to thank the 40th president of the United States. But for one donor of at least $100,000 - Texas oilman Edwin L. Cox, Sr. - gratitude may have been closer to home...
...Boyden Gray, Bush's White House counsel during the period in question, said he can't recall the case or the note sent by Baker in November 1992. But he said the reference to Cox as a "longtime supporter" would not have influenced the decision. "It was boilerplate to put it in," he told TIME. (Baker did not return calls for comment.) Gray said such inquiries were routinely sent to the Justice Department's pardon attorney. He did not recall whether Justice recommended Cox's pardon. But nearly every pardon granted by Bush had its support, he said...
...Gray saw no problem with Cox's library contribution because it was made after the pardon. By contrast, Rich's ex-wife gave $450,000 to Clinton's project before he pardoned her ex-husband. "What's semi-toxic for Clinton was raising money for the library while he was still in office and letting people know, By the way, we're open for pardons, too," said Gray. "We never solicited Mr. Cox's application...