Former President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son’s administration, over their reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
In “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush,” author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the cable news network said.
Speaking of Cheney, who was vice president under President George W. Bush, the senior Bush said: “I don’t know, he just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with,” according to the report.
Cheney served as defense secretary during George H.W. Bush’s 1989-1993 presidency
Election post-mortem
It’s over. Thank God! No more phone calls and there will be room in my mailbox for the mail.
I am appalled over how much money is spent on elections. I am equally appalled that there is so much talk about abortion, guns, and people’s past histories that have nothing to do with the office they are seeking. We need to spend far more time talking about potholes, commuter lots, and making sure there is money for every child to have a text book.
Guns and abortion really don’t often affect most of our every day lives, yet, many of us, myself included, use these issues as criteria for whom we will vote. That’s just screwed up and I know we are used by the powers that be to keep politicians in office.
