In other news, Obama’s college records and transcripts are still in a lock box at the Rezko mansion in Chicago. Media can’t keep up with the stampede of squirrels.
Via UT San Diego
George W. Bush called it Sam Houston’s bible. Rick Perry swore on its centuries-old sheepskin four times. And on Tuesday, Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott is set to preserve one of the oldest inaugural traditions in the U.S. when he lays his hand on the historic tome to take the oath of office.
But archivists now say it’s possible that Texas governors have been duped for centuries.
Caretakers of the brittle, brown 199-year-old holy book long known as the Sam Houston Bible — a would-be link to the former president of an independent Texas cherished by both Republicans and Democrats — have evidence that suggests the book may have never belonged to the state’s equivalent of George Washington.[…]
Houston’s connection to the book is fuzzier, and big clue is long gone: The bible’s flyleaf reads “Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas,” but the bottom half is torn away. A Texas Supreme Court justice told colleagues in the 1940s that he saw Houston’s signature on the now-missing half of the page.
That recollection satisfied amateur historians for a long time. When Bush was inaugurated in 1995, he called it “Sam Houston’s own bible, simple and worn.”