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(30,514 posts)Beltway Bash: A Glamorous Night of Tribute to George H.W. Bush
Mar. 22, 2011
First came Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush followed to spirited applause. Last came the night's honoree, Bush the elder, confined to a wheelchair by his Parkinsonism, a vascular disease similar to Parkinson's. The cheering was poignant as he rolled down the aisle, but as the chair arrived at the rows where the Bush family sat, H.W. made a motion to stand and, amidst a second eruption of cheers, he shuffled to the seat between his wife Barbara and the man she calls her "black sheep son": Mr. Clinton. As the major sergeant warbled through the twilight and ramparts, the junior ex-President kept his hand firmly pressed on his predecessor's back.
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