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.
