By: Joe Strupp President George Bush may not read newspapers every day, but that didn't stop him from having a hand in the recent start-up of a new $40 million printing press at The Buffalo News. Continuing a 100-year-old tradition at the upstate New York paper, Bush on Feb. 20 "flipped the switch" for a test run of the new presses (they went into use March 7). Utilizing a computer hook-up from the White House, Bush got the presses rolling with the click of a keyboard, as News Publisher Stanford Lipsey joined him. The event marked the third time in the paper's 124-year history that a U.S. President christened a new press, starting with Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. More than a half-century later, in 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower did the honors, via a telegraph key. "It's a neat tradition we have here," said Margaret Sullivan, the paper's editor and vice president.
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