George W. Bush Presidential Center a ceremony which featured all living former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and the incumbent U.S. President, Barack Obama. The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, while the university holds representation on the institute board. The project raised over $500 million for the construction and endowment of the George W. Bush presidential center. The previous time that George W. Bush (then the outgoing President), Obama (then the President-elect), former President Bill Clinton, former President George H. W. Bush and former President Jimmy Carter all met
George H. W. Bush after the elder Bush had gone to a Brookfield, Wisconsin motel. Bush told biographer Jon Meacham that his son's vice president, Dick Cheney, underwent a change following the September 11 attacks: "His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East." In December 2002, George W. sought counsel from the elder Bush regarding Iraq and informed him of "my efforts to rally the Saudis, Jordanians, Turks, and others in the Middle East". Following the fall of Baghdad, Bush praised George W. in an April 2003