Posted on 01/09/2004 8:32:20 AM PST by SierraWasp
11:21am 01/09/04
Ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill blasts Bush By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill blasted President Bush in a forthcoming book, charging that the president lacks curiosity and does not engage his aides in discussions about policy. In cabinet meetings, Bush is so disengaged that he is "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people," O'Neill is quoted as saying in The Price of Loyalty, by Ron Suskind. Separately, O'Neill tells CBS News in an interview to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday that his first meeting with Bush was "mostly a monologue." "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and,... I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening," O'Neill said in the television interview. White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to comment. "I don't do book reviews," McClellan told reporters at the White House.
Hmmm. I seem to remember folks saying the SAME things about Ronald Reagan!
Maybe the President didn't want to get involved in an argument with O'Neill.
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Afterward, O'Neill mused, ``I've got to learn to control my temper.'' But the next day, O'Neill, who often responds to questions with the brusqueness of a business leader used to telling subordinates what to do, found himself in hot water with Democrats at a Senate Budget Committee hearing.Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia lectured O'Neill on the finer points of Senate courtesy after O'Neill had interrupted the questioning of freshman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
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