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    Trump braces for Bush love-fest and the inevitable comparisons

    by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times Dec 03, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - As America celebrates the life of President George H.W. Bush and the "kinder and gentler" era in politics he represents, the current president, who rose to power in open mockery of that style of democracy and who hates to surrender center stage, will have to endure the tributes from a pew in the audience.

    President Donald Trump plans to attend Bush's state funeral Wednesday but is not scheduled to speak, according to the list of eulogizers released by the Bush family on Monday, marking the first time in nearly half a century - since President Richard Nixon failed to eulogize Lyndon B. Johnson - that a sitting president has been left out of the memorial of a predecessor.

    The omission will put the cultural and personal gulf between Trump and Bush

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