Now this is the sort of gesture that makes me proud to be an American:
President Bush has tapped former Presidents Clinton and Bush to lead a nationwide charitable fund-raising effort for victims of the Asian tsunamis, the White House announced Monday.
The two men will lead an effort "to encourage the American people and American businesses to support, through private contributions, non-governmental and international organizations" relief and reconstruction to areas devastated by the tsunamis, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
The president was announcing the effort in the White House's Roosevelt Room with the two former presidents at his side.
Afterward, Bush was paying brief visits to the embassies of the four nations — Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand — hit hardest by the disaster. Bush was to sign condolence books at each embassy, McClellan said.
'nuff said.
UPDATE: As I've already blogged on this three previous times, I've disabled comments on this thread. This post is more or less to say "Well Done, Mr. President," so I don't want to open the comments, but rather let this stand as my postscript to those other posts. Here's a link to the last post in the series for those wishing to make additional comments on this topic. Personally, I'm impressed and, so, moving on.
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