Erica Grieder

Bush’s object lesson in gracious departure

Amid the continuing Obamania, let us salute the poise with which George W. Bush and his team left office, says Erica Grieder. He showed the world what orderly transition means

issue 31 January 2009

In 2001, soon after George W. Bush’s inauguration, a bit of gossip surfaced from the White House: outgoing Clinton staffers had crept around the place taking the Ws off keyboards, phone wires had been snipped, furniture broken, glue placed on desk drawers and satirical signs hung up directing people to the ‘Office of Strategery’.

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