It had long been a dream of the company's cofounder, engineer Alfred W. Fielding.

FORBES: Wrap Star

Obama added his appearance at the memorial service onto a long-planned trip to Texas for Thursday's opening of George W. Bush's presidential library at Southern Methodist University.

NPR: Obama Consoles Families, Survivors Of Texas Blast

He went a long way in achieving that simply by not being George W. Bush, but it's difficult to point to real successes in fulfilling his pledge to exert moral leadership.

CNN: Obama, failing on moral leadership?

John McCain's victory in the New Hampshire primary was crushing: he defeated George W. Bush, long deemed certain to gain the Republican nomination, by a wounding 18 percentage points.

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