WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawer after two terms as president ...

Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk ... that for George H.W. Bush, his successor ...

He did that for George H.W. Bush, his successor and vice president ... FILE – President George W. Bush pauses at his desk after he signed a Joint Resolution commemorating Ronald Reagan’s ...

Bush pauses at his desk after he signed a Joint Resolution ... “It’s just a very bipartisan, genuine reflection of, I think, really, George H.W. Bush’s character,” Matthew Costello ...