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![So soon after the election he was supposed to lose, by almost everyone’s prediction, President-elect Donald Trump’s first post-election visit to the White House was almost jarring. Paired with the photos of a significantly toned-down Trump and his assurances that he would seek “counsel” from President Obama, the man he spent a year skewering on the campaign trail, it was enough to make people wonder if the man in the Oval Office starting in January 2017 would be a new Trump. But that visit is nothing less than transformative for those mere 44 men who have experienced it. I know firsthand: For 5 years it was my job to chase after Senator and then President Obama with cameras of various kinds. I was there, cameras in tow, on November 10th 2008, when President-elect Obama met with President George W. Bush at the White House. It was a study in contrast: The graying tired and deeply unpopular President Bush and the fresh young former Junior Senator from Illinois, empowered with a national mandate. “People think I’m doing a pretty terrible job. Whadya think about that Reggie?” President Bush, wheeled on Reggie Love, Obama’s body man as if he really wanted an answer, right before smiling for cameras on the colonnade. As Obama now turns to the role of confident, poised mentor, it’s worth taking a look back at a time when he, too, was awed, shell-shocked and nervous to be in his new home, and the power that comes with it. Above, President George W. Bush shows President-elect Barack Obama the private office attached to the Oval Office. “You gotta check this out Barack!” [[did he really say this?]]](http://static2.politico.com/dims4/default/f9b8445/2147483647/legacy_thumbnail/1160x629%5E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F92%2F9e%2Ff1bf91c2411398a122cc7fb9cd0f%2F110813-gwb-bo-0317.jpg "110813_GWB_BO-0317.jpg")
When Obama Was New to the White House
Photos of another striking transition in November 2008.
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