Bizarre Collection Headed to Bush Library

George W. Bush’s $300 million presidential library will be filled with documents, including many classified files. In all, it’ll boast roughly 68 million pages of documents, 175 million e-mails, 3,845,912 photos, and more videos than any previous president's library. But it’ll also have a wide array of “museum objects”—known outside the realm of politics as “random crap.” Among the souvenirs the Washington Post mentions:

• A pair of custom cowboy boots emblazoned with a giant “GWB” monogram
• Diamond-and-sapphire jewelry given to Laura Bush by the king of Saudi Arabia
• A mosaic of St. Peter’s Square given to Bush by Pope Benedict
• A bat signed by all the living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, circa 2001
• The 9mm Glock Saddam Hussein had on him when US forces captured him
• Gold and silver swords
• A surfboard
• Countless cowboy hats and saddles

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