Obama to Attend George W. Bush Presidential Library Opening
President Barack Obama will join all four living former U.S. presidents at ceremonies marking the opening of George W. Bush’s presidential library later this month, the White House said on Wednesday.
It will mark the first time since January 2009 that the so-called “presidents club” has gotten together. Obama and former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton will gather in Dallas at Southern Methodist University for the younger Bush’s event on April 25.
The rare gathering of Obama and his predecessors will be a powerful symbol of American democracy, but it also brings together what can best be described as strange company.
Obama won the election in 2008 by campaigning hard against Bush’s economic record, the same tactic that Clinton used to defeat the elder Bush in the 1992 campaign.
And Carter, who was president from 1976 to 1980, is still lambasted today by Republicans for presiding over a tepid economy.
This article appeared in print on page D6 of edition of Hamodia.
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