George W. Bush As Custer, Obama As FDR: TIME Covers That Didn’t Make The Cut (PHOTOS)

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TIME unveiled some covers on Wednesday that never made it to newsstands.

One that was slated to be released in January 2007 centered around George W. Bush’s “troop surge” in Iraq and depicted the 43rd president as George Armstrong Custer, while another that was originally intended for a November 2008 release imagined President Barack Obama as Franklin D. Roosevelt.

 

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