WASHINGTON (AP) — A dual interest in public service has brought President Barack Obama and former President George H.W. Bush together at the White House for joint salute to volunteerism in America.The first President Bush — “41,” he often calls himself — came for a visit Monday to attend a ceremony Obama was holding to recognize the 5,000th Daily Point of Light Award. Created by Bush more than two decades ago to honor volunteer service, the award’s name comes from the description in his 1989 inaugural address of Americans serving each other as “a thousand points of light.”
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