“I transposed one disaster with another (both occurring within 18 months of one another) in my assigning his quote. Perhaps that’s a measure of how upset I was in both cases.”
Wow. “Upset”?
Someone needs to spend more time on actual research (does this guy even work in his field?) instead of acting like some special snowflake because Bush said something that upset your tummy.
I suppose in terms of the life of the universe 18 months can be considered a brief time lapse. Anywhere else...not so much.