WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Bush stood with his wife in front of an eternal flame honoring Shoah victims, and bowed his head.
That silent moment at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week was followed by comments to friends, guests and survivors in
Bush went on a private tour of the museum for more than an hour April 18.
Bush was deeply moved by the pictures on the museum's Tower of Faces and by the exhibit on totalitarianism, according to museum director Sara Bloomfield, who accompanied the president on the tour.
For more JTA stories, go to http://www.jta.org