He loved it all-the friendly, eager faces, older now; the war stories, remembered, but not too much, with advantage; the barbecue and the country music and something new, the selfies, through which he gallantly grinned, delighted to be in the thick of things again. But then George Herbert Walker Bush has always been happiest in a swirl. Earlier this month, during a three-day celebration at his presidential library in College Station, Texas, on the 25th anniversary of his 1989 Inauguration, he was asked how he liked the flood of warmly generous words about his time at the pinnacle of American power. "Hard to believe," the former President said in a voice hoarse with age. His eyebrows rose mischievously. "It's kinder and gentler all over the place."
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