President Bush never put on kid gloves with the media

Published February 27, 2017 6:34pm ET



There’s major nostalgia in the media this morning for former President George W. Bush after he told NBC’s Matt Lauer that a free press is “indispensable to democracy.”

It was a stark change in tone from the treatment journalists are getting used to under the Trump administration. But that nostalgia shouldn’t cloud memory. The 43rd president regularly and openly clashed with the free press.

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