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A tale of two transitions amid crisis: Bush smoothed the path for Obama, while Trump creates chaos for Biden
By Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff,Updated December 22, 2020, 12:06 p.m.
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Then President-elect Barack Obama spoke with outgoing President George W. Bush at the White House in November 2008.DOUG MILLS/NYT
The nation was deep in crisis, the White House was about to switch parties, and the outgoing president was focused on the potential for chaos.
There was to be none of it.
With the economy free-falling in late 2008, George W. Bush instructed members of his administration to go out of their way to make the transition to Barack Obama’s presidency as smooth as possible. Bush himself ultimately made the biggest concession in that regard, infuriating many fellow Republicans by authorizing a $17.4 billion bailout of General Motors and Chrysler a month before Obama took office. ....

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