LEWISVILLE (July 8, 2009)--Gifts, documents and electronic records from George W. Bush's two terms as president have gone from the White House to a Texas warehouse.

The items will be in storage in Lewisville until Bush's $300 million presidential library opens in 2013 on the campus of Southern Methodist University.

The Associated Press reports there are about 40,000 artifacts and 65 million documents in storage.

The 100 terabytes of electronic records is by far the largest of any presidential collection.

The Bush administration was the first that worked entirely during an era of e-mail.

Among the artifacts is the pistol Iraq's Saddam Hussein carried when U.S. soldiers captured him in 2003.

The National Archives and Records Administration has a legal mandate to preserve every presidential record, which covers anything produced by White House staff.