Former President George H.W. Bush raps Cheney, Rumsfeld in biography

One America News Network ^ | November 4, 2015 | Eric Walsh

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son’s administration, over their reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on Wednesday.

In “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush,” author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the cable news network said.

Speaking of Cheney, who was vice president under President George W. Bush, the senior Bush said: “I don’t know, he just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with,” according to the report.

[LeoWindhorse]

ok , thank you for the backstory .
I retract my ill informed remarks .
Thanks

[AllAmericanGirl44]

He didn’t write a book, what is cited here is what he told the man who DID write the book.

Just thought you’d like to know.

[Slyfox]

And thank you. U.S. Grant was a great general and a great man.

[LeoWindhorse]

he captured my great grandfather at Vicksburg

[Slyfox]

I have two g-g-uncles who both served at Vicksburg on the Confederate side. While I was doing research on them I read about their regiment and Grant wrote later that he had never seen in his entire time in the Civil War a more brave outfit than that regiment that my uncles were in. I was sort of stunned when I read it.

Both of my uncles were killed and buried at Vicksburg like so many others without a headstone marking their deaths. And there is no record of them receiving a pension.

Grant's treatment of Lee at Appomattox made me a fan of his.

[LeoWindhorse]

My GG along with all other CS forces surrendered by Pemberton at Vicksburg were , after a short time , given a Union parole . Asked to sign and swear to never take up arms against the union again . He did so and was released and allowed to walk home ( which wasn’t very far - Central MS) In his records I can find no sign that he ever broke this parole agreement , he went off the pay records . He did not desert ,although after a time his records began to declare him absent . He stood good to his word . I think after 3 years of war he’d had enough anyway . He was at Shiloh and enjoyed Sherman’s camp’s victuals on the 1st evening . Speaking of Sherman , he was at Vicksburg too. Now there’s a rat for you . I can respect Grant but I hate Sherman .