Bush Asks Clinton How to Handle Obama

Outgoing President George W. Bush has revealed that he reached out to former President Bill Clinton for advise on how to handle his meeting with incoming US President Barack Obama.

In an interview with CNN, Bush said that he rang Bill Clinton the day before Obama and his wife arrived at the White house for ideas on guidance on handling the new kid on the block.

"'Bill, I'm getting ready to meet with the new president and I remember how gracious you were to me. And I hope I can be as gracious to president-elect Obama as you were to me,"' Bush told CNN today in a description of the call.

"To the extent that he asked my advice and he may want to ask it again, and the best way to make sure he feels comfortable asking it again is for me not to tell you in the first place what I advised him," he said.

Bush also said one of his biggest regrets as President was the infamous "mission accomplished" banner

"I regret saying some thing I shouldn't have said, like dead of alive....I was trying to convey a message and I probably should have conveyed it more artfully"

"I regret that that sign (Mission Accomplished) was there," Bush said.