George Herbert Walker Bush’s death at the age of 94 made international headlines on Friday. The 41st president continued to influence the US politics, in a way, even after his demise as Donald Trump cancelled a scheduled G20 presser out of respect to his late predecessor.
Tributes to ‘Bush Senior’ have been pouring in online after his twenty-five-year-old kind-hearted note to Bill Clinton was circulated on the internet.
« Dear Bill, » read the note then-outgoing President Bush left to new incumbent Bill Clinton in the Oval Office on January 20,1993. « 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. »
« I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described, » Bush continued in a somewhat heartfelt manner — an exchange hardly expected between two presidents in today’s highly divisive political environment in the United States.
Somehow I can’t imagine Obama’s Letter being as meaningful. Prove me wrong
trumps note to the next president will be a tweet…
« There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair, » Bush 41 wrote, perhaps in anticipation of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, as some people have noticed.
