president bush picks his battles – with the naacp
President declines NAACP invite to speak [ap via seattle post intelligencer, july 8, 2004]Bush spoke at the 2000 NAACP convention in Baltimore when he was a candidate. But he has declined invitations to speak in each year of his presidency, the first president since Herbert Hoover not to attend an NAACP convention, John White, a spokesman for the group, said Wednesday.
just for reference, hoover was president from 1929 to 1933.