George Bush's favorite painting is an 28x40 oil on canvas by W.H.D. Koerner called "A Charge to Keep."Bush loves the painting so much (the rider bears an eerie resemblance to the President), his own autobiography is named after it, in is his interpretation:
"When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves."
However, that interpretation is wrong, this is in fact the depiction of a criminal fleeing the law.
The original title to this painting was "Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught," and it was drawn by Koerner to illustrate a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1916 called "The Slipper Tongue," about a horse thief who escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska.
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