George W. Bush jokes there will be ‘no new tuxes’ for him

Published May 11, 2018 1:12am ET



Former President George W. Bush joked that there would be “no new tuxes” for him — a reference to one of his father former President George H.W. Bush’s most remembered lines that there would be “no new taxes.”

George W. Bush said Thursday at the Atlantic Council Distinguished Leadership Awards dinner in D.C. that his former national security adviser Stephen Hadley recommended he not wear the same tux he wore to the White House Correspondents Association dinner.

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