Turns Out, Bush Didn't Always Wear His Jacket

After Obama is ripped by ex-White House official, HuffPo digs up photos of informal Dubya

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 6, 2009 2:23 PM CST

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Turns Out, Bush Didn't Always Wear His Jacket — Bush "always wore a suit and tie in the Oval Office. There was never a picture of him that was seen by the public in which he wasn't wearing a suit and tie," a Reuters correspondent says. (AP Photo)

After a former White House staffer ripped Barack Obama for being under-dressed in the Oval Office, where President Bush required a suit and tie, the Huffington Post has photos of Bush jacketless in, you guessed it, the Oval Office. “There should be a dress code of respect,” Andrew Card told Inside Edition. “I wish that (Obama) would wear a suit coat and tie.”

Says Anya Strzemien: “Turns out that going casual in the Oval Office is a long, time-honored tradition that pre-dates the Bush administration: JFK did it. Gerald Ford did it. Ronald Reagan did it. Jimmy Carter did it. Clinton did it (a lot).”

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