the shame of it

Steve Chawkins writes for the Los Angeles Times: "For about three
months in 1949, an oil-field equipment salesman named George Bush lived on a
quiet street in east Bakersfield with his pregnant wife, Barbara, and their
3-year-old son, also named George. Last month, Kern County officials approved
the transformation of the family's modest rental -- a two-bedroom white-frame
house in a neighborhood now heavily Latino -- into a museum.</nitf>

" 'We thought it was important that the house do some good,' said its
owner, Republican political consultant Mark Abernathy, who plans to build a
reading center for neighborhood children in the museum's back yard. 'It's almost
like a duty.' "