re: #236 lawhawk

Separate and distinct from lobbying the IOC in person. Meeting with the USOC and the Chicago effort is one thing; going before the IOC is another. I don’t think Bush went before the IOC personally on behalf of Chicago for the 2016 games, or for NYC on behalf of the NYC 2012 effort.

Because they weren’t meeting at that point. The fact is that every one of the leaders of the front runner countries went to Copenhagen to lobby for their countries. If Bush were President, I have absolutely no doubt he would have done the same.