President Bush, like President Reagan, always maintained such a respect for the Oval Office that he never went in without his jacket. And it wasn’t an option in the Bush Administration as to whether you wore one while there; it was a rule that one was required. Under Barack Obama, however, that rule has changed.

CNN) — It’s the same Oval Office. The same desk. Even the same curtains. But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won’t find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.

It wasn’t just a personal preference. In the Bush administration, it was a rule: Jackets in the Oval Office — and now, it seems, one of the first Bush-era regulations to get scrapped in the Obama White House.

I guess the same amount of respect just isn’t there.