Posted on 02/20/2005 9:10:28 AM PST by Brian Mosely
Feb. 20, 2005 — The friend of the Bush family who secretly recorded nine hours of conversations with George W. Bush says he never intended for the tapes to become public but felt he had a duty to accurately represent a man who he believed would one day become president.
Doug Wead, the author of the new book "The Raising of a President," surreptitiously recorded his conversations with Bush beginning in 1998, when Bush was governor of Texas and considering a run for president.
The candid conversations suggested Bush's strategies to deal with questions about whether he used drugs, to reconcile his born-again Christian faith with a tolerance toward gays, and other issues.
Wead, who has written extensively about other first families, including the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, believed Bush would become a "pivotal figure in history."
"I had a choice to either write propaganda about the Bushes or write accurately and fairly based on what I knew," said Wead in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America."
Wead said his publisher insisted on listening to the tapes to confirm anonymous sources cited in the book. The New York Times then got wind of the tapes, and from there, it "all became unraveled," Wead said.
Wead played about a dozen tapes to a reporter from the Times over the past several weeks, and the paper confirmed their authenticity with an audio expert, according to an article in the paper today.
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will they just leave W alone and let him do the peoples business of running our country and keeping us stuff. I sure Monica could say alot about what Billy Jeff discussed as she was under the desk
exuse typo that is safe
He reminds me of Nixon. The tapes he had recorded were not
intended for the public either-but his enemies used them and the blank spaces against the man who promissed and
prosecuted an end to them SE Asain War Games.
Doug Wead is scum.
If you secretly tape anyone , you intend to use that tape and this guy is a lying sack of Doo-doo.
Dollar signs.
Roy Douglas Wead
The democrats and rinos are in Iraq to take from Bush travel abroad. (see we travel too! me too politics at their best)
The blurbs on the radio center around saying bush is super religions and that republicans should not attack homsexuals. (at least on the radio)
If this guy is a REAL friend he would either turn the tapes over to the Bush's (without keeping copies) or simply destroy them publicly to end this crap.
From the NYT article:
Bush also criticizes then-Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) for admitting marijuana use and explains why he would not do the same. "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions," he said, according to the Times. "You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
On one tape, Bush explains that he told one prominent evangelical that he would not "kick gays, because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?"
Now, I ask you, how do those statements show a STRATEGY to "deal" with those issues?
That's what he writes about..Presidential Children etc. Has numerous books on the subject.
The article I read in today's Dallas News said the tapes were made in "states" that considered tapes made without one party's knowledge were legal. I don't know which ones.
One simply cannot reconcile "born again"Christianity to
"tolerance" of behavior called an abomination worthy of death" and never spoken of as behavior to be tolerated nor
'taken pleasure in"at any point from Genesis to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Our response is to be found in Jude verses 9-23-but nowhere do I see we are to be unequally yoked to unbelievers,nor reconciled to them.
Thanks! Never heard of him.
It just tickles me when the Libs try to get something on W. Backfires and makes him look even better every time.
Yes my exact point. Non Christians have long thought that we are to accept and tolerate everyone as they are. We are to "love our neighbor as ourself" but that is not the same as tolerating what they do.
wow
Of course, we can't have any reporters actually liking GWB. That's a conflict of interest.
Those editors and publishers deserve most richly to lose their readers and viewers.
I don't see one.
However, everything a lefty says is a strategy defined as, 'how do I fool them today?'. As with AlGore, and "targeted taxcuts" he mentioned in the debates.. would he ever define WHO would be the targeted recipient?? No. Because he wanted us to believe 'we' were in the group. If we knew we weren't, then he would've created more class warfare within his own party, driving voters to the candidate that wanted tax relief for everyone.
The left are seaching for that same motivation in Bush's words, and find nothing more than, he says what he means.. privately and publicly.
Best I can figure..
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