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Jon: an amazing collection of books, manuscripts and other documents belonging to our first president george washington now going on public display for the first time, all part of a $104 million george washington library opening next to his historic mount vernon home. carl cameron is live in mount vernon, virginia, with more on the library. carl. >> reporter: very big day for history and. where he is buried and with his mansion they're having grand opening after library of george washington's many, many volumes. this is not like many other presidential libraries around the country. this is res...

Of this? >> i make that people like president bush as an ex-president not as a current president. i could say i actually like him as an ex-president. he seems like a nice person. he is doing great things for wounded warriors but i didn't care for him as president. to me that just reflects this. it's not a question do you think with hindsight that he was a good president. >> megyn: we played some of the soundbites, president bush when his portrait was unveiled at the white house and president bush at his library opening. guy a is very charming. whether you like his policies are not. he clearly ...

We're so glad his dad will be here for the library opening. >> christine, having covered the first six years of the bush presidency, when they say exact replica of the oval office, they got it just right. i was half expecting the staff to come in and ask me not to ask any questions. you can get the advice president bush received about iraq, about katrina, and make your own decisions about whether you would agree or disagree with the whez did. when are you in that war of terror room, the timeline from 9/11, you go seamlessly from the bullhorn to just steps away to pictures of saddam hussein. an...

Martha: that will be interesting to see the library opening and sort of go back to some of those words and revisit that history as i know we're going to do on thursday. but you know, one of the constituencies that helped propel president bush into office was the hispanic vote. he had one of the strongest showings of that part of the voting population of recent presidents. that has changed in many ways for republicans and there's a story this morning in "politico" says if this immigration reform bill passes that that future is even more bleak in places lake nevada and colorado and ohio. think t...

Accomplished. >> now, how much of this is a problem, as you see it, dana? i mean, and his appearances, what will it mean? >> well, reverend, i think he can salvage everything if he shows up for the library opening wearing the flight suit and perhaps popping out of an aircraft just to remind us of the good old days. it's a problem for the party in the sense that, look, every former president in the glow of distance, people forget the bad things, it becomes more pop are popular. he's around 46% in the polls which makes him the least popular of living former presidents, for obvious reasons, and a...