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Time, April 23, 2012 

Page 30, United States
Inside the Presidents Club
By Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

...No matter what may separate American Presidents when it comes to politics, personalities or petty grievances, they are members of unique and exclusive fraternity, and they are bound together by experiences that no one else can understand...The Presidents club may not be in the Constitution or any book or bylaw, but neither is it a metaphor or figure of speech. It was created in 1953 at Dwight Eisenhower's Inauguration...

"You will be our President when you read this note," George H.W. Bush wrote to Clinton, the man who had just defeated him...Bush who had to contend with four former Presidents during his time in office, consented to meet. And so in October, Obama flew to Texas A&M in College Station, home of Bush's presidential library, to toast Bush in a speech about public service...

...His work helped earned him the Nobel Prize in 2002; Carter even admits he is a better former President than he was a President...Even Carter points to what he calls "a quiet, fraternal feeling" that exists among the men who have sat at the big desk...

...But, Clinton added, "When my President summons me, then I come, and I would play golf in a driving snowstorm." Which is just another duty that comes with membership in the Presidents Club.

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 24, 2012,
New Taipei City Library,
Panchiao, New Taipei City