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Bush: I Cry A Lot
Newsmax
Monday Sept 3, 2007
Looking to the day he leaves the White House, President Bush
says he'll concentrate on making speeches and running an institute
that promotes democracy around the world. He also admitted that
he cries "a lot" on God's shoulder.
Bush made the revelations to Robert Draper, for his book “Dead
Certain,” which will be released on Tuesday.
According to the New York Times, Bush told Draper:
"I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on, and I cry
a lot. I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can
count as president" -- an implied reference to the casualties
of the Iraq war.
“I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’
coffers [when I leave office]. I don’t know what my dad
gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars
a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”
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“We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where
he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute”
promoting democracy around the world.
“I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored,
going down to the ranch.”
“Sixty-two is really young, and yet I’ll be through
with my presidency.”
“[Right now] I’m playing for October-November. ...
To get us in a position [in Iraq] where the presidential candidates
will be comfortable about sustaining a presence” and “stay
longer.”
His top commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, would perhaps
do a better job selling progress to the American people than he
could.
That he doesn't govern by staff vote, rejecting a story that
that's how then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's fate was decided.
Bush shared private thoughts that appeared to reflect a level
of sorrow and presidential isolation that he strongly implied
he took pains to hide, saying:
He likes to keep things “relatively light-hearted”
around the White House.
“Self-pity is the worst thing that can happen to a presidency.
This is a job where you can have a lot of self-pity.”
According to the Times, Bush agreed to speak candidly with Draper
after six years of lobbying. Draper told Bush that he'd write
about him as “a consequential president” for history,
not for the latest news cycle. He told Bush that his book could
provide “the raw material” for others after him.
President George H.W. Bush in 1982 was an honorary pallbearer
at the funeral of Draper’s grandfather, Leon Jaworski, a
special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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