Following on from Tuesday's final Bush press conference and yesterday's final final Bush public appearance (not to be confused with his final radio address, which he recorded today), here's the transcript of today's final, final, really properly final White House press briefing, in which spokeswoman Dana Perino pretends that she and her boss have had nothing but love for the media over the past few years, and rather pointedly pays tribute to all but one of her Bush administration predecessors. Meanwhile, other White House staffers are moping sadly around the building, taking photographs and arranging for last-minute tours by family and friends, before handing in their Blackberrys and passing through the security gates one last time. "The whole thing was getting melancholy: going through the gate and hearing the very solid click of the turnstile, and knowing that was it," a Clinton staffer recalls. "It was a very solid, pronounced click."
