Earlier this month, Mr. Bush acknowledged that the summit meeting would be seen as a gathering of warring egos rather than a triumph of substance when he told a German delegation visiting the White House that he knew that every public moment he spent with Mr. Schröder would be under scrutiny.
These funds helped pay for the purchase and installation of 17 lighted arches across High Street, modern recreations of arches erected in 1888 to commemorate the centennial of the Northwest Territory as well as a gathering of Civil War veterans.
And now the "logic of war"—a gathering presumption of and momentum for action is also starting to build up outside the Bush administration.
It's a gathering of veterans from all three warring factions, some still in uniform, staging a communal protest to demand the pensions they were promised for their wartime service.
In her address to a gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Clinton forcefully presented an alternative vision to the one Trump offered at last week's Republican National Convention.
For Brown, it started with the first meeting of his National Economic Council - a gathering of senior ministers, styled as a war cabinet for the credit crunch.
Grace Akallo, originally from Uganda, and Kon Kelei, originally from Sudan, narrated their personal experiences as former child soldiers and spoke of building their network of children and young people affected by war that they helped found - Network of Young People Affected by War (NYPAW) to a gathering of ambassadors, government and United Nations officials and civil society partners.
"Any peace is better than any war," he told a gathering of reporters and foreign diplomats in Jerusalem.
And when a gaggle of parliamentarians began circulating a petition opposing the war, he addressed a gathering of leftist parliamentarians in military fatigues.
In Ukraine, Cossacks share a laugh next to a war monument at a gathering of pro-Russian supporters in the Crimean capital Simferopol, on Feb. 28, 2014.
