Ex-President Bush Confesses About Coat

[LVT]

Ex-President Bush Confesses About Coat

Tuesday, March 8, 2005



(03-08) 09:55 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --


Former President George H.W. Bush is 'fessing up after 16 years. The raincoat he had an agent give to a rain-drenched elderly woman in a Warsaw town square belonged to the agent, not the president.


The woman, one of thousands of onlookers, was caught unprepared for the downpour the marked the president's outdoor speech in the capital in 1989. Alongside her, in the front row, stood a U.S. Secret Service agent, a raincoat, presumably the president's, folded over his arm.


Bush, standing coatless on the platform under a large umbrella, motioned the agent to give the soaked woman the coat, which she happily accepted.


The incident was recorded as a kindly presidential gesture, Bush parting with his raincoat.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/08/national/a095553S34.DTL

[Sub Atomic]

1. That's nice.

Lying is a Bush family value.

[WI_DEM]

2. I remember this

they made a big deal about the president giving his coat to this old drenched woman. Instead, Bush gives away somebody else' coat and takes the credit for it. Unbelievable.

[VOX]

3. Classic Bush family values. Get the media to support your lie...

and then declare victory. :mad:

[daydreamer]

4. I do like Bush Sr. better than his son.

[lancdem]

5. Me too

But that's not saying much since I completely despise his son.

[jody]

6. Sometimes an apple falls from a tree and rolls downhill!. n/t