Bush: It's 'Liberating' to Be Out of Office

Former president, in one of his few public appearances since leaving office in January, told graduating high school students that leaving office lifted a heavy burden.

ARTESIA, N.M. (Fox News) - It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood when it stopped in a neighbor's yard for relief.

"And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand," he told a group of graduating high school students in New Mexico on Thursday. "Life is returning back to normal."

Bush, in one of his few public appearances since leaving office in January, told the students that leaving office lifted a heavy burden.