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<\/a>GETTY IMAGES\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0Ms Lind said the alleged incident took place in 2014<\/p><\/div>\n
“Our driver, who was stopped at a light, sat there for a moment, then leaned back and looked at us. ‘I do trust you will be\u2026 discreet,’ she said.<\/p>\n
“Her comment wasn’t menacing. But in that moment I thought: She has heard this before.<\/p>\n
“The people around President Bush are accustomed to doing damage control. There must be many of us, I remember thinking. And now I know there are.”<\/p>\n
When approached by Slate for comment, Bush spokesman Jim McGrath directed the magazine to a statement he released to the earlier allegations.<\/p>\n
“At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures,” the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
“To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke – and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.<\/p>\n
“Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologises most sincerely.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bush, the father of George W Bush, who served two terms in the office between 2001 and 2009, suffers from a form of Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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