shemp
9th January 2004, 02:37 PM
No Dialogue In Bush Cabinet? (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml)
(CBS) President Bush was so disengaged in cabinet meetings that he "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people," says former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in his first interview about his time as a White House insider.
O'Neill speaks to correspondent Lesley Stahl for a report to be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
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A lack of dialogue, according to O'Neill, was the norm in cabinet meetings he attended. The president "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people," O'Neill is quoted saying in the book.
It was similar in one-on-one meetings, says O'Neill. Of his first such meeting with the president, O'Neill says, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage [him] on...I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening...It was mostly a monologue."
Why should it be surprising? Bush has the brains of a turnip. He can't discuss anything more intelligent than "Dick and Jane" with anyone.
(CBS) President Bush was so disengaged in cabinet meetings that he "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people," says former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in his first interview about his time as a White House insider.
O'Neill speaks to correspondent Lesley Stahl for a report to be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
...
A lack of dialogue, according to O'Neill, was the norm in cabinet meetings he attended. The president "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people," O'Neill is quoted saying in the book.
It was similar in one-on-one meetings, says O'Neill. Of his first such meeting with the president, O'Neill says, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage [him] on...I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening...It was mostly a monologue."
Why should it be surprising? Bush has the brains of a turnip. He can't discuss anything more intelligent than "Dick and Jane" with anyone.