Echo......
“President Dodo.”
“He’s playing the role of president, strutting around,” says Gold. “He’s the weakest president in my memory.”
Gold, a slight man with wispy white hair and a hair-trigger temperament calls Bush
President Dodo
He’s known Bush since the ’80 campaign, and while he doesn’t really think he’s dumb,
he knows he can be manipulated.
The administration in his view
has become a danger to the Constitution
and what America stands for in the world.
He wrote to tell 41 about the book he was writing, and he got a letter back saying, “We’ve been friends a long time and we’ll continue to be friends. I am sure I will not like what you say about our son.” And then in a grace note typical of the old man, “but I don’t think too much of the neocons myself.”
Gold, 78, a veteran Republican operative. Close to the Bushes and the Cheneys, he once shared office space with Lynne
What happened to Cheney is “opportunity,”
says Gold.
Pushed forward by George and Barbara Bush, who had no confidence in their eldest son