"They were right that Bush doesn't have a deep grounding in history"
President Bush majored in history at Yale. He knows more history than his detractors put together.
"When we had to sit alerts, there were two pilots, and two crew chiefs that sat out in the alert barn. George was like everybody else, except while George was over in a corner reading somebody's autobiography, the rest of us were watching Hee Haw." -- Joe Glavin, a member of Dubya's Texas Air National Guard squadron, quoted HERE.
"They were right that Bush doesn't have a deep grounding in history"
President Bush majored in history at Yale. He knows more history than his detractors put together
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Also, he reads vociferously, and a good deal of his reading seems to be about historical figures, particularly American presidents.
This is not a stupid or uninformed man. He is not a smooth talker, and, in their arrogance, his media detractors equate their own glibness with superior critical thinking skills. There are many kinds of "intelligence" and facility with language is but one of them.