{"id":2768,"date":"2004-10-14T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2768.html"},"modified":"2004-10-14T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T17:57:33","slug":"suskind-gets-another-great-inside-look-at-the-bush-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/suskind-gets-another-great-inside-look-at-the-bush-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Suskind gets another great inside look at the Bush White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It won&#8217;t be out for a couple of days, but this week&#8217;s New York Times Sunday Magazine is going to have a big feature on Bush from Ron Suskind, whom you know as the author of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743255453\/thecarpetbagg-20?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\">The Price of Loyalty<\/a>,&#8221; the best-seller based on materials provided by former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;Neill.<\/p>\n<p>The story will have a few gems, including:<\/p>\n<p>* Suskind talked to attendees from a confidential luncheon Bush had with RNC Regents. Reportedly, Bush at one point said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be real positive while I keep my foot on John Kerry&#8217;s throat.&#8221; It&#8217;s that kind of positive, classy leadership that has inspired the world, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>* In an Oval Office conversation, Bush reportedly described Sweden: &#8220;They&#8217;re the neutral one. They don&#8217;t have an army.&#8221; Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) apparently turned to Bush and said, &#8220;Mr. President, you may have thought that I said Switzerland.&#8221; Hardly the kind of anecdote that inspires confidence in Bush&#8217;s competence.<\/p>\n<p>Should be a good article. Keep an eye out for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won&#8217;t be out for a couple of days, but this week&#8217;s New York Times Sunday Magazine is going to have a big feature on Bush from Ron Suskind, whom you know as the author of &#8220;The Price of Loyalty,&#8221; the best-seller based on materials provided by former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;Neill. The story will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}