Word: tsunamis
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...movie: an unlikely and even awkward arrangement that evolves into real friendship and then an alliance that expands beyond its original mission. Their team has its limits and its lingering, unbridgeable differences, and their bond sparks considerable resentment in the wings of both their parties. But first with the tsunami and then with Katrina, the two men have galvanized the private response to natural disasters this year. What's more, by working together, Bush and Clinton have reminded a deeply divided nation how much old-fashioned teamwork is missing from its politics and what can be accomplished if people just...
When they arrived in Washington last January to take on the tsunami job, the Bush-Clinton task was fairly limited: tour the region, collect information about how to help foreign governments, direct Americans to the right charities and send a signal at home and abroad that the U.S. takes the relief effort seriously. It didn't take long for the ice to break: both men discovered that they hated repeated rehearsals of television spots and tried to entertain each other between takes. During a round of joint interviews, Clinton put his former rival at ease by changing the subject when...
...turned up a couple of weeks later in Florida for a Greg Norman--sponsored golf tournament that raised almost $2 million for the tsunami effort. The next day Clinton had surgery to remove some scar tissue and fluid from around his left lung, and Bush immediately checked on his spirits and kept after him for weeks about the importance of working out. A family friend recalls sitting with Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, while 41 dialed up his new best friend: How do you feel? What do the doctors say? Are you sore? How much are you exercising...
...work in the first half of the year was in part getting to know you, their work in the second could be called getting down to business. Phase 2 began after both made a discovery neither expected. Even though they had never tried to raise money directly for the tsunami-relief effort (they had simply guided donors to established charities), checks had rolled into their offices. It was a lot of money too: more than $12 million at last count, and it was still coming in last week. Many of the checks, moreover, came from people who attached notes making...
...Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama; and at the suggestion of Bush 43, funds to help reopen churches and faith-based institutions. They created a bipartisan board to oversee the Katrina donations and vowed to put out a report later this month explaining how they spent their tsunami funds. (One project: buying new fiber-glass boats for fishermen who lost their vessels in the storm.) There's talk of a Clinton visit to Bush's College Station, Texas, library in the spring, and both men may address the May 2006 graduating class of Tulane University in New Orleans, which...