How did George W. Bush get back into the White House?
Oh yea, President Barack Obama welcomed number 43 to unveil his presidential portrait.
Obama told Bush and an assembly of former Bush aides and Cabinet members-
“We may have our differences politically, but the presidency transcends those differences.”
Bush, light-hearted and expansive, saluted artist John Howard Sanden for “a fine job with a challenging subject.”
He jokingly noted a symmetry with the first presidential portrait, of George Washington: “It now starts and ends with a George W.”
The former president was joined by his wife, Laura, and other family members, including his father, former president George H.W. Bush, and his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush.
Obama thanked Bush for his service to the country and said it takes someone who has served as president to understand the challenges that face the White House occupant saying-
“In this job, no decision that reaches your desk is easy, no choice you make is without cost, no matter how hard you try, you’re not going to make everybody happy…I think that’s something that President Bush and I both learned pretty quickly.”
What’s more, he told Bush, “you left me a really good TV sports package … I use it.”
It was all in good natured fun.
Bush was last at the White House in January 2010 to help out with Haiti humanitarian relief.
