Staudt is the correct spelling...he lives locally here in New Braunfels,TX so I have been keeping up with this. I guess he is fed up with the allegations against Bush and decided to go ahead and speak out, he has been slamming his door in the faces of reporters previously.
LOVE your city....
What's even more mind numbing is the fact that CBS is digging in their heels on this bogus story instead of issuing a Mea Culpa. Dan Rather is toast. Their ratings are dropping like a rock.
For people, that for some reason, don't live in Texas. New Braunfels is God's country.
I know I dug up a quote from him from a few years back refuting the favoritism krap during that go-round.
He's been on the record before and if I were he, I'd take a week to cool down before going on the record lest I strangle the reporter.
Texas Speaker Reportedly Helped Bush Get Into Guard
September 21, 1999
excerpt:
Bush has denied joining the Guard to avoid the draft. He said he "wanted to be a pilot," met all the requirements when he walked into Staudt's office at Ellington Field, and was accepted. He has pointed repeatedly to Staudt's denials that any influence was exerted on Bush's behalf.
Staudt said in an interview that he knew Adger, but that Adger never mentioned Bush to him. Bush has said that he met Staudt in late 1967, during Christmas vacation of his senior year at Yale, called him later, and by Bush's account, "found out what it took to apply."
Asked recently how it was that Bush came to call Staudt, Bush's communications director, Karen Hughes, has said he heard "from friends while he was home over the Christmas break that the Guard was looking for pilots and that Colonel Staudt was the person to contact."
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