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UNIVERSITY PARK, Tex. — Standing in front of the magisterial brick-and-limestone George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday, Bill Clinton summed up the day with a knowing smile. “I told President Obama ,” he said, “that this was the latest, grandest example of the eternal struggle of former presidents to rewrite history.” 
  
 All five veterans of the Oval Office onstage could relate to that: If every memoirist is the star of his own story, every president is the hero of his own library. 
  
 So the protagonist who emerged as Mr. Bush’s library was formally dedicated on Thursday was a resolute leader who protected the nation after Sept. 11, 2001, raised education standards, pushed to overhaul the immigration system and brought peace to the war-torn nation of Sudan. His peers highlighted his AIDS-fighting program, which is credited with saving millions of lives in Africa. 
  
 The words Iraq and Afghanistan, however, never passed Mr. Bush’s lips, or those of the four other presidents who spoke. 
  
 They alluded to the American wars there by praising Mr. Bush’s deep concern for wounded soldiers and the families of those killed in combat, but put aside for a day the arguments over how the wars were conducted, why they were waged and what they accomplished. 
  
 “One of the benefits of freedom is that people can disagree,” Mr. Bush told a crowd of thousands on a bright Texas day. “It’s fair to say I created plenty of opportunities to exercise that right. But when future generations come to this library and study this administration, they’re going to find out that we stayed true to our convictions.” 
  
 For Mr. Bush, 66, who has spent the past four years listening in silence as his successor has faulted his leadership, this was an emotional day. Bathed in the admiration of a friendly crowd and enjoying a modest resurgence of public appreciation in recent surveys, he choked up as he finished speaking and wiped tears from his eyes after sitting down. 
  
 While critics have fumed about what they called the whitewashing of his record in the media blitz leading up to the library dedication, many Americans have been reminded about aspects of Mr. Bush they once liked. Advisers said they hoped the moment would help history draw a fuller picture. 
  
 “It’s never been about presenting him,” said Nicolle Wallace, who worked on Mr. Bush’s re-election campaign and in the White House. “It’s been about revealing him.” 
  
 The $250 million library, on the campus of Southern Methodist University, reframes many elements of the Bush presidency, domestic, economic and foreign, as part of his “freedom agenda,” linking together sometimes disparate policies in a single narrative thread. 
  
 “In democracy, the purpose of public office is not to fulfill personal ambition,” Mr. Bush said. “Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves. The political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall, supporters come and go. But in the end leaders are defined by the convictions that they hold. And my deepest conviction, the guiding principle of the administration, is that the United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom.” 
  
 Jimmy Carter, Mr. Bush’s father and Mr. Clinton have opened their own libraries, likewise shaping their histories as they preferred. Mr. Obama can be expected to do the same soon enough. On this day, they collectively wrapped their arms around a fellow member of the club. 
  
 “We know President Bush the man,” Mr. Obama said. “To know the man is to like the man. Because he’s comfortable in his own skin. He knows who he is. He doesn’t put on any pretenses. He takes his job seriously, but he doesn’t take himself too seriously. He is a good man.” 
  
 Mr. Obama, whose first presidential campaign was built on opposition to the Iraq war, praised Mr. Bush for his bullhorn-in-the-rubble fortitude after Sept. 11 and said his predecessor fought for what he thought was best for his country. He linked his own effort to overhaul the immigration system to Mr. Bush’s. 
  
 “If we do that, it will be in large part thanks to the hard work of President George W. Bush,” Mr. Obama said. 
  
 Mr. Clinton, who has become close to the Bush family, offered warm words and recounted how he and Mr. Bush used to talk politics while his successor was in office. Referring to the library behind him, he joked, “Dear God, I hope there’s no record of those conversations in this vast and beautiful building.” Hillary Rodham Clinton, sitting onstage with the other presidents and first ladies, laughed robustly. 
  
 Mr. Carter, one of the fiercest critics of the Iraq war, talked about how Mr. Bush ended war in Sudan and helped Africa. “I’m filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you about the contributions you’ve made to the most needy people on earth,” he told Mr. Bush. 
  
 The event was a public re-emergence for Mr. Bush’s father, who spent weeks in a hospital last winter and at one point appeared close to death. Now in a wheelchair because he has a form of Parkinson’s disease, Mr. Bush, 88, said only a few words, thanking those who made his son’s library. “It’s very special for Barbara and me,” he said. 
  
 The crowd stood in ovation. In a poignant moment, the former president — with the help of his son and Barbara Bush — lifted himself to his feet for a few moments in acknowledgment. 
  
 Also on hand was former Vice President Dick Cheney, who appeared revitalized after having a heart transplant last year. Wearing a cowboy hat, Mr. Cheney was introduced along with members of presidential families, but he had no speaking role. 
  
 Mr. Cheney makes only cameo appearances in the museum exhibits, and in an interview broadcast this week, the younger Mr. Bush described their relationship as “cordial” — a word that left the impression that the two were not close because of their fight in the waning days of the administration over a pardon for the vice president’s former chief of staff. 
  
 Perhaps to refute that, Mr. Bush offered warm words for Mr. Cheney from the stage. “He served with loyalty, principle and strength,” Mr. Bush said. “I’m proud to call you friend.” ||||| The dedication ceremony of George W. Bush's presidential center has ended after the nation's 43rd president gave a closing speech with tears welling in his eyes. 
  
 A crowd of 10,000 watched as a military guard carried a line of flags off the stage, followed by the departure of all five presidents and their wives Thursday in Dallas. 
  
 The ceremony was also attended by former members of the Bush administration, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, current and former world leaders including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the children of former presidents. 
  
 Bush gave the last speech, noting his joy that his father, the 41st president, was able to attend the dedication. 
  
 He said, "41, it is awesome that you are here today." ||||| Alex Wong / Getty Images First lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, former first lady Barbara Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush on April 25, 2013 in Dallas. 
  
 Giving a broad-strokes defense of his eight years in the White House, former president George W. Bush celebrated the dedication of his Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas on Thursday. 
  
 “We expanded freedom at home by raising standards in schools and lowering taxes for everybody. We liberated nations from dictatorship and freed people from AIDS,” he said. 
  
 And he added, alluding to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, “when our nation came under attack we made the tough decisions required to keep the American people safe,” he said. 
  
 “My deepest conviction – the guiding principle of the administration – is that the United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom,” he declared. Freedom, he said, “sustains dissidents bound by chains, believers huddled in underground churches and voters who risk their lives to cast their ballot.” 
  
 In the audience were the nation’s three other former living presidents – George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter – as well as current commander in chief Barack Obama. Also in attendance were pivotal figures from the Bush era, including former Vice President Dick Cheney and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. 
  
 President Barack Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush speak Thursday at a dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. 
  
 To no one’s surprise, the ex-presidents’ remarks -- and Obama's too -- generally shied away from re-litigating the controversies of Bush’s presidency. Alluding to those events, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bush said, “One of the benefits of freedom is that people can disagree. It’s fair to say I created plenty of opportunity to exercise that right.” 
  
 Bush singled out Cheney for praise. “From the day I asked Dick to run with me, he served with loyalty, principle, and strength,” Bush said. 
  
 Bush ended his speech with tears in his eyes. 
  
 Obama used his speech to promote his top policy goal at the moment – persuading Congress to pass a bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws. 
  
 He lauded Bush for trying to enact an immigration bill in 2006 and said “I’m hopeful that this year with the help of Speaker (John) Boehner, and some of the senators and members of congress who are here today, that we bring it home.” 
  
 And if an immigration overhaul becomes law this year, Obama said “it will be in large part thanks to the hard work of George W. Bush.” 
  
 Obama praised Bush for “reaching across the aisle to unlikely allies like Ted Kennedy because he believed we had to reform our school in ways that helped every child learn, not just some.” 
  
 Obama portrayed Bush as a man of compassion and generosity, a man who “is comfortable in his own skin” and who “takes the job seriously but doesn’t take himself too seriously. He’s a good man.” 
  
 Clinton also touched on immigration, thanking Bush for working to revamp the nation’s immigration policies – “and I hope the Congress will follow President Obama’s effort to follow the example you set.” 
  
 And Clinton delivered some wry humor in his remarks. He called the Bush library “the latest grandest example of the eternal struggle of former presidents to rewrite history.” 
  
 Former President George W. Bush recalls his time in office, noting that it was the "honor of a lifetime to lead a country as brave and as noble as the United States." 
  
 He noted that he’d had phone conversations with Bush “a couple of times a year in his second term ... just to talk politics.” 
  
 Then he added “A chill went up and down my spine when Laura (Bush) said that all their records were digitized. Dear God, I hope there’s no record of those conversations in this vast and beautiful building.” 
  
 Carter, the first former president to speak, praised Bush for appointing a special envoy to help end a prolonged war between north and south Sudan. 
  
 It was a gathering of men whose political careers stretch back to 1963 when Carter was elected to the Georgia legislature and 1964 when the elder Bush ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate. 
  
 Alluding to the possible future of the Bush political dynasty, former First Lady Barbara Bush skeptically told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Thursday, “There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes.” 
  
 When asked whether she expects former Florida governor Jeb Bush to seek the presidency, Mrs. Bush said, “It’s a great country. There are a lot of great families and it’s not just four families.” 
  
 The dedication of the Bush library has spurred a wave of retrospective analyses of his presidency, reviving the debates over his leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and his decision, with a congressional vote of authorization, to invade Iraq in 2003. 
  
 Obama’s election in 2008 was at least partly due to the electorate’s war weariness after five years of military entanglement in Iraq. 
  
 But Obama has continued some of Bush’s counter-terrorism policies and greatly expanded Bush’s use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, to kill terrorist suspects in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. 
  
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George W. Bush's presidential library got its formal dedication today in Dallas, with all five living presidents making the trip. "Oh happy day," Bush said as he took the stage. "41, it is awesome that you are here today," continued the man of honor in reference to his father, reports the AP. As for visitors to the site: "They’re going to find out that we stayed true to our convictions, that we expanded freedom at home by raising standards at school and lowering taxes for everybody, that we liberated nations from dictatorship and freed people from AIDS," said the younger Bush, as noted by NBC News. "And that when freedom came under attack, we made the tough decisions required to make the American people safe.” Some other notable comments: President Obama: He praised Bush's resolve after 9/11, his help fighting AIDS in Africa, and his commitment to immigration reform, reports the New York Times. "We know President Bush the man. To know the man is to like the man. Because he's comfortable in his own skin. He knows who he is. He doesn’t put on any pretenses. He takes the job seriously but he doesn’t take himself too seriously. He’s a good man." President Carter: He also praised Bush for his AIDS push in Africa, along with helping to stop Sudan's long civil war: "Mr. President let me say that I am filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you about the great contributions you've made to the most needy people on Earth." President Clinton: He touched on similar themes, and jokingly recalled his private conversations with his successor. "Dear God, I hope there’s no record of those conversations in this vast and beautiful building." Laura Bush: "I remember how steadfast and steady he was for eight years. My George is a man who when someone needs a hand offers them their arms."