Eric Draper, On Covering The Bush Presidency

 

WASHINGTON, DC (December 26, 2008) – White House photographer Eric Draper, who has covered President George W. Bush since the former Texas Governor started running for the nation's top office, gave Fox News an interview about what it's been like to cover America's 43rd President for the last eight years.

Draper started covering Bush during the campaign for the 2000 election while the photographer worked for the Associated Press, and he says he got the job as the White House photographer by "walking up and asking [Bush] for it."

During the interview he talks about what it was like to cover Bush on 911, and some of the highlights of the last eight years on the job, and his intentions to cover Bush right up to the last day when he returns to Texas after the inauguration.

The video by Fox News can be watched online here.

 

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