Obama Joins With Political Foe Bush at End of Africa Trip
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President Barack Obama didn’t get his anticipated meeting with Nelson Mandela, the man who inspired his political career. Instead, as he ended his Africa trip, he joined with a political foe he followed into the White House.
One of the most unlikely images of Obama’s weeklong trip came this morning in Tanzania when he stood next to former U.S. President George W. Bush at a wreath-laying ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam in memory of victims of the 1998 terrorist bombing there.