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Bush is widely lauded for aggressively working to help tackle the AIDS epidemic by expanding funding for treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, while Clinton received kudos for reducing trade restrictions on more than 30 African nations. These efforts have continued under the Obama administration but some think Obama is in a special position to be doing even more.
"I think it's important that they recognize that their predecessors have made policies that are sustaining. However, we're talking about the first president whose father comes from Kenya, and the expectation is that we would take our relationship with Africa to the next level," said Todd Moss, chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.
"It would be a shame if the United States led by the son of a Kenyan's legacy was to just continue the work of his predecessors," said Moss who also served as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State during the second Bush administration.
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