There will be all these things that happen, but eventually the person who can best lead their party will be nominated.” And there will be flashes in the pans, there will be this crisis, there will be the funding thing. “I can’t tell you who is going to win, but I can tell you what’s going to happen,” Bush says, and Clinton nods in agreement. But all that experience does give these two a certain feel for how things will unfold, even as the likes of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders suck up media coverage and draw crowds. “It’s no question it’s ironic that we’re sitting here with a father, two brothers, a husband and a wife,” Bush observes of the past and present White House contenders. But they will not take their eyes off the game, not for a minute. Now he gets a second chance, while Bush gets a first, and you can practically feel them straining to show us how obsolete they are–“We’re like two old war horses being put out to pasture,” says Bush, and over and over they both talk about no longer being “in the arena.” They recognize that each is a more natural retail campaigner than the Bush and Clinton running this time and that they must keep their heads down for the time being. Clinton tried and failed in the supporting role in 2008, casting a shadow over Hillary’s first presidential campaign. Neither one is exactly cut out to be a lion in winter: they are too young, too restless, too sure of their instincts. But they frequently reward them in elections.” So how do these two men behave in the coming months, when politics drives them apart and circumstance binds them together? Clinton and Bush, the Elvis and Prince Hal of American politics, finally have to pull up, step back and stay off the field. “People don’t like negative, divisive environments. “Look, this is highly complicated,” Clinton says. “Most people expect that a Republican and Democrat couldn’t possibly get along in this day and age.”īut there’s more to this duet than harmony. “I think it lifts their spirits,” Bush says. “And they know in their gut, they gotta know, that all these conflicts just for the sake of conflict are bad for America and not good for the world.” When the two men appear together in public, like at the NCAA basketball finals last year, the crowds cheer. “I do believe that people yearn to see us both argue and agree,” Clinton says. Like the phoenix with its healing powers, a divisive politician resurrected as an elder statesman can be a soothing presence, and the two of them together are even better than one. Their connection is visible in the body language, the mutual mockery of each other’s set pieces and shticks, the way they tease and praise and even protect each other in the course of our conversation. They know each other far better than you would expect, two baby boomer Presidents born six weeks apart in 1946 and yet reaching the White House from very different roads and governing from very different compass points. Now they are talking to us, having posed for a portrait, and they have to know that it will make some heads explode to see them together on the cover of a magazine at the same moment when large numbers of voters are asking, Is America really so bereft of plausible candidates that for the ninth time in 10 presidential elections, a Clinton or a Bush may be on the ballot? Why call attention to their unlikely alliance now, as their loved ones prepare for combat that only one, and maybe neither, can win? The former Presidents, two Establishment icons, have just appeared together onstage at the Bush Presidential Center, cameras rolling, tweeters tweeting, in a celebration of postpartisan good works. A populist prairie fire is burning across the campaign trail, on which fevered candidates delight in torching idols. If you watch what they do, not just what they say, this conversation can offer clues to their unprecedented predicament.
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Bush is sharing a sofa with Bill Clinton to talk about how to handle the 2016 race. Somewhere on this hot July day, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are thumping each other over jobs and economic policy, but in a cool Dallas office, George W.
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