The George W. Bush Presidential Library, part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, opened in 2013 on the SMU campus.(SMU)

Entering the University of Texas as a freshman in fall 1972, the building on campus I had to see first was the brand new LBJ Presidential Library, the first post-presidential institution ever to be on a college campus. Throughout my college and law school years, I followed the exhibits, watched the videos mounted on display, heard the recordings of Johnson’s phone conversations and attended the speaker programs.