George W. Bush

President Bush, photographed playing a G#maj7#4#9 on a Cobalt C980 guitar following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, August 30, 2005. Bush visited the base to deliver remarks on V-J Commemoration Day. The day prior, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there had been over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana.

WHCA has a big handbook,” he said. “And one of the things that they say in the handbook is that a microphone that's going to be used for the President will be used in a wide variety of environmental situations, and failure of the microphone in any situation is unacceptable. And so they chose a microphone that was very durable, with very few moving parts and would prove reliable over the years, and it has. They started using it 1965 and they've never had a failure of the microphone.”