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Bush, Obama hail our history

They differ markedly on policies, but President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama both struck the same note in their Christmas weekend radio addresses -- right down to using the same image of Gen. George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night 1776.

Mr. Bush called Washington's raid on Hessian troops in Trenton, N.J., a "miracle" of the nation's birth.

"Two hundred and thirty-two years have passed since George Washington crossed the Delaware. But on this Christmas, his legacy lives on in the men and women of the United States military," Mr. Bush said.

Both Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama told Americans to remember troops stationed overseas, with the president-elect remarking on "servicemen and women [who] can only wonder at the look on their child's face as they open a gift back home."
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