Bush speaks to crowd in Woodward

 
MICHAEL MCNUTT
Published: July 4, 2009

WOODWARD — Former President George W. Bush told a cheering crowd Saturday night that freedom must always be defended. “Freedom is beautiful; freedom is precious; freedom must always be defended,” said Bush, spending his first Fourth of July in eight years not in the White House . Bush steered clear of commenting on his successor, President Barack Obama , or his policies, and instead spoke of patriotism and t...

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