Bono 2018: 'I've Grown Very Fond' of GW. Bush. "Underneath his armor there's passion, compassion..."

Bono with US President George W. Bush after speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, February 6, 2006. JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Bono: ‘I’ve Grown Very Fond’ of George W. Bush

Rolling Stone | SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON | NOVEMBER 30, 2018

...Tomorrow, December 1st, is World AIDS Day, and Bono stopped by The Today Show to reminisce about that partnership. The interview was conducted by co-host Jenna Bush Hager, the former president’s daughter, which meant questions like “Do you remember the first time you met my dad?”

“Yeah, well, he didn’t want to see me, which is fair enough,” Bono recalled. “Different political views and whatever. I was the guy who had to come into the office and get him to look up from his big oak table, there in the Oval Office, to let his values tell him what to do.”

Bono’s close work with George W. Bush was surprising at the time to many who saw his presidency as an unmitigated humanitarian disaster. (“Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history,” historian Sean Wilentz wrote in a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story that assessed the impact of Bush’s disastrous choices in Iraq, New Orleans and elsewhere.)...

...“I’ve become very fond of him,” Bono added. “Underneath his armor, there’s passion, compassion. He has it.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bono-george-w-bush-world-aids-day-761747/



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