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Bush I & Bush II Share Their Thoughts on Vibrating Chairs in Their Goodbye Interview
This doesn't need much introduction. Here's the link from Fox News's Brit Hume interview with the Bush father and son -- and here's the touching ending to the latest installment of the Bush era: HUME: When you first took office, took occupancy of this office, as I recall, the two of you had a brief moment together. G.W. BUSH: Right. HUME: Can you reflect on that? Do you remember it? G.W. BUSH: We had just witnessed the Inaugural Parade, and I came upstairs at the White House up there, and I think you were taking a nap. G.H.W. BUSH: No, I was in the bathtub, thawing out. G.W. BUSH: Yes, he was in the bathtub. (Laughter.) HUME: Were you really? G.H.W. BUSH: Yes.
G.W. BUSH: Of course, I yelled through the door. Anyway, I said, why don't you come over and meet me in the Oval Office? And so I got in here before he did, and I was just getting a sense of what it was like to be in the shrine of democracy. And then I looked up, and in comes 41. And it was a moving moment. It was a great day for me, a very proud moment. HUME: Can you remember what was said? G.W. BUSH: Not really. I had a weird chair, as I recall. It had like an electric cord on it. And I don't — did you use the weird chair with the electric cord? G.H.W. BUSH: Yes. G.W. BUSH: Well, I didn't use the weird chair with the electric cord, but he showed me how to operate it. HUME: What did it do? G.W. BUSH: Jiggle or something. HUME: Where you put on your fingers, turned off the lights, and magic fingers make you feel all right? That kind of thing? (Laughter.) G.H.W. BUSH: I remember this totally different. I remember being in the bathtub after that ice-cold Inaugural Parade or whatever, and one of the guys that was in the White House said, get out of the bathtub, Mr. President, you got to get over; the president wants you right now. (Laughter.) Come on, I'm just thawing out here. Get over there. (Laughter.) So I went over and it was very, very moving. G.W. BUSH: It was an awesome moment, it really was, as you can imagine.
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