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George Bush, worried about appearing to be a presidential buck-raker, will wait awhile before hitting the speech circuit.
Bush Bonanza 2008
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The biggest buck-raker to date is commentator Armstrong Williams, who took $240,000 from the Education Department to promote the president's No Child Left Behind law.
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