It was a grace note for the ages. “Dear Bill,” George HW Bush scribbled Jan. 20,1993, to the Democrat about to succeed him as president, the AP reports. “When I walked into this office… Politics News Summaries.
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It was a grace note for the ages. “Dear Bill,” George HW Bush scribbled Jan. 20,1993, to the Democrat about to succeed him as president, the AP reports. “When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.” Short yet intimate, the note left in the Oval Office from vanquished to victor seeded a friendship that flowered in the decades since, to a point where Bill Clinton said upon Bush’s death Friday: “I just loved him.