Funny, I don’t remember Bush speaking to all public schools at one time. What I do remember is that the Bush administration had to put language in the No Child Left Behind Act to force public schools to allow military recruiters on campus. The anti-war left have been irate over the NCLB ever since. That is the reason that Teddy didn’t vote for his own bill.
The Obama speech is meant as a kick off to prepare (brain wash) kids to prepare them for Obama’s civilian service corps. He just won’t be talking about it in the first speech, he was going to leave the recruiting up to the teachers.
He did. In 1989.