Bush will speak at his presidential center with the author of his father’s biography.
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In contrast to Ronald Reagan, for whom Mr Bush served eight years as vice president, or Richard Nixon, whose patronage he enjoyed, Mr Meacham said Mr Bush saw politics as a noble undertaking, in the mould of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “where public office was an extension of yourself”.
On what Bush 41 thinks about the fallout from the comments, Meacham said, “I think he is following it very closely”.
“He had a sense of destiny, a sense that he was meant to do great things”, Mr Meacham said, adding that his father and in-laws had both predicted his rise to the White House. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush is sympathetic but not sycophantic, written from Bush’s perspective but with a journalist’s rigor.
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“Personally, I still believe in traditional marriage”, Mr. Bush wrote.
“On Cheney, Meacham told Couric said, “[President Bush] admired Dick Cheney … but he believed after September 11 that Cheney became harder-lined, more hawkish and did not believe that that fed the impression he wishes his son had”.
“I can say that I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong because, even though he had used chemical weapons extensively against his own people, against others, the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought”, Blair said in an exclusive interview on CNN.
According to The NY Times, Bush’s evolution on marriage equality is described in the book. Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida (1999 to 2007), focused his governorship on budget, taxes and education policy.
The elder Bush was a far more emotional person than the image he presented publicly, Meacham said.
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“What ever he might have done to seek power should not be seen, in my view, as cynical but as instrumental because in the end, he put the country ahead of his own political interests”.
