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Related: About this forumTIME Magazine - Photos: Oval Office Secrets from Truman to Obama
The inside story of what happens when members of this most exclusive fraternity talk.Some very cool pix of former presidents and factoids on the unique and secret relationships between those in the exclusive president's club...
More: http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/12/photos-oval-office-secrets-from-truman-to-obama/?photo=presidents_club_02-2#presidents_club_01#ixzz1sBWwwD5a
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TIME Magazine - Photos: Oval Office Secrets from Truman to Obama (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Apr 2012
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. K&R - very fascinating!!!
Rhiannon12866
(202,987 posts)3. Some of these friendships really were strange bedfellows...
But I think they found they had more in common than they had real differences. No one knew better what each one was facing than another who had held the office.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)2. Interesting
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)4. Who would have thought W could be so gracious?
President George W. Bush invited the entire Club membership to lunch at the White House to meet Obama before the inauguration in January, 2009. We want you to succeed, he told Obama. Whether were Democrat or Republican, we all care deeply about this country. . . . All of us who have served in this office understand that the office transcends the individual.
Doesn't get him off the hook for the terrible damage he did but I thought this was classy.
Rhiannon12866
(202,987 posts)5. I learned a whole lot by reading this...
I knew that Ford and Carter became close friends, but LBJ and Ike?! Who would have thunk?!