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Posted on 03/06/2005 4:05:40 PM PST by Jean S
NEW YORK - On their tour of tsunami damage in Southeast Asia, former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) once allowed his predecessor, former President George H.W. Bush, to sleep on the plane's only bed while he stretched out on the floor.
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The government plane in which the presidents toured the disaster area had one large bedroom and another room with tables and seats, according to an interview with Bush in this week's Newsweek.
Bush, 80, said Clinton offered ahead of time to give the older former president the bedroom so he could lie flat and avoid paining his body. Clinton, 58, decided to play cards in the other room that night.
The next morning, Bush said he peeked in and saw Clinton sound asleep on the plane's floor.
"We could have switched places, each getting half a night on the bed, but he deferred to me. That was a very courteous thing, very thoughtful, and that meant a great deal to me," Bush said.
Bush said he and Clinton are not close, but have been compatible on the tour, partly because Clinton respects his age.
The March 14 issue of Newsweek hits newsstands Monday.
When they first started their tsunami thing they did a big press conference, and I couldn't take my eyes off them. At first it doesn't hit you, because they're both ex-presidents, and you expect an ex-pres to look, well, aged. But then it just came over my that they look the same age, but Clinton is actually the SAME AGE as W.
At the time, I said that they both looked 70.
To look at it another way, they're a generation apart. One could theorize that Bush41's "clean living" bought him half a generation in slowed aging. Clinton's "sex-drugs-rockandroll" living COST him half a generation, and accelerated his.
Why would Clinton have first choice of the bed in the first place?
My guess was him, and I don't know why.
Anyone would have deferred to an 80 year old man. For pete's sake our expectations of Clinton are so low that I think he would be applauded offering a kleenix.
Please do not mention Southern Baptist and William in the same breath!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Well Clinton always struck me as being driven by gluttony and lust. Soemthing many men fall victim to.
Hillary is driven by pride and vanity. Something which is harder to pull a person away from.
*LOL*!!!
Jimmy Carter and Algore too, if I'm not mistaken! :-P
That is quite uncharacteristic, to say the least.
Wow, at least he's a gracious RAPIST!
I said this a few weeks ago. I think President Bush and his father are working with Clinton to make him the man he should have been. Whether this will work or not, I don't know. But it is good that they are trying.
Clinton probably had a female staffer along and ended up with knee burns from the carpet.
I was surprised how much Clinton has visibly aged in the past year, with his heart surgery obviously a major factor. Bush 41 looks pretty dang good for an 80 year-old man.
Dogs should aways sleep on the floor.
Respecting people and social manners is the first step to getting along.
"My" good southern boys would have been offended at the thought of Bubba being a good ol' boy. :o)
You know you just might be right. 1. Bill Clinton has spent a lot of hours in Southern Baptist Churches and God says that His Word will not return void. 2. Contrary to what the left thinks about Evangelicals, I have heard many prayers go up for Bill Clinton's repentance and I really believe that at some point those request will be honored. 3. Bill Clinton has made a profession of faith and God will not let one of His Children get away with mocking him, and will hold Clinton accountable as a leader of this country.
"Clinton caught flat out lying on Presidential jet."
That was nice of Clinton.
Two words come to mind, and the first is "Just".
Other than being a rapist, traitor, perjurer, cokehead, witness intimidator, evidence destroyer, and blue dress messer, I guess I have to give Clinton some regret for really being a decent guy.
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