Posted on 01/13/2009 6:44:07 PM PST by Kaslin
President Bush held his last Cabinet Meeting this morning Transcript
President Bush met this morning with President Calderón of MexicoTranscript
This afternoon President Bush honored President Uribe, Prime Minister Howard, and Prime Minister Blair. Transcript
Thanks for an important thread, and for posting the entire “quote of the day”. Since I have not turned on my tv much lately, I totally missed seeing this event. I guess Rush was in the audience. His replacement should have given us a hint!
I did not watch the interview on Larry King, I don't watch CNN, but I watched the second part of Sean Hannity's interview with the President
I recognized Rush in the Video as soon as I saw him
You are very welcome
My pleasure
Indeed we do
You’re very welcome. There were so many great quotes, it was impossible for me to choose just a particular quote.
Well shoot I missed the video! Just was sure that was the SECRET DC event
Must go back through thread & look for link
My heart is full and my eyes spilling over.
God bless this honorable man.
(From Larry King Live Interview) Bush: President’s priority is preventing attack
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/13/bush.lkl.interview/index.html
“National leaders sometimes take office without fully knowing all the tests that await them.”
I think this was Bush’s parting shot at Obama!
**Video clip from Pres. Bush’s interview with Larry King:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/13/bush.lkl.interview/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
David Gergan is not worth the air he breathes.
I didn’t mean to take anything away from PM Blair, by talking about Howard. I had just received an e-mail from a friend (and checked it on snopes.com and found it TRUE) about how Howard told the Muslims to get out of Australia if they were going to act up or something like that....so that was fresh in my mind, and hubby and I were cheering him on. So, when I found out that he was one of those that were the reason BO couldn’t stay in the Blair house, I wrote and told him I was happy to hear that it was him.
Who knows if it wouldn't have caused issues in his Country---you never know the behind the scenes things you can and cannot do because something you need from the current leader would be affected by your giving a metal to the former....
I heard David Gergen. He came on before I could switch the channel, and BOY you are 100% right about him!
I do remember reading in several news papers online that former PM Howard of Australia had ordered the Muslims out of of his country
Amen..
No new photos today, but it was an important day for President Bush and for military families who were invited to the White House.
Press Secretary Dana Perino: Today the President will meet with and deliver remarks to family members of military personnel who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will take place over in the East Wing of the White House -- I think it's the East Room, but I'll confirm that for you. The Vice President, Cabinet members and other administration officials will be in attendance. Of course, it's closed press, in keeping with how the President handles these events.
Photos may be scarce the next few days as things wind down. President & Mrs. Bush will be spending their last weekend as the First Couple at Camp David. And next Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday, so the President will have no public events leading up to the inaguration on Tuesday.
Tomorrow night (Thursday), the President will deliver his farewell address to the nation live from the Oval Office.
Dana: Tomorrow morning there's a scheduling update for you, as well. President Bush will go over to the State Department where he'll have a chance to thank the Foreign Service and the State Department staff for their service over the last eight years. This is also a chance for the State Department to recognize the President for his foreign policy achievements. And he will deliver remarks; this event will be open press.
Rush: Last week I received an invitation from President Bush to attend a farewell luncheon with just the two of us in his dining room off of the Oval Office. I readily agreed to this, and it was for yesterday.…
So yesterday morning I rise early, head to the airport, fly up to Washington, DC, and get to the White House at 11 o’clock. The luncheon with the president was scheduled from 12 noon to one o’clock because at 1:05 he’s gotta go to the East Room for the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. I arrived at 11 o’clock as they asked me to in case the schedule was moving faster, they don’t want the president to have downtime, so if you’re waiting to meet with the president you’re always there early in case his schedule changes.
They called me into the Oval Office at 11:45. We went in, had some pictures, as is always the case. Ed Gillespie, one of the president’s advisors was there, posed for pictures and so forth, president said, “Let’s go eat!”
Now, the day before, on Monday, I had been faxed the menu from the White House mess. They asked me to choose what I wanted from the menu from the lunch a day in advance. So I looked at the menu, and I ordered salmon over rice and a side salad with some ranch dressing. We get into the president's private dining room off the Oval Office and in front of every place setting -- three of them, there's Ed Gillespie, the president, and me -- there's a cheese and cracker tray, a substantial cheese and cracker tray that they had not told me would be there. The president had not ordered, he ordered lunch, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And he told the steward, "I want red jelly, don't give me that purple jelly, I want red jelly." Ed Gillespie had a salad, a large salad. So shortly thereafter here came my salmon, here came my side salad and an older of French fries that I did not order and the president's got his little peanut butter and jelly sandwich there and Gillespie is looking at his salad, the president looks at me and said, "Hey, Limbaugh, we don't have all that much time to eat here, this is going to be a quick meeting." I said, "I didn't order all this but I'm happy to have it here."
Then I got my napkin out, and I'm getting ready to put the napkin on and unbeknownst to me a corner of my napkin dipped into the bowl of ranch dressing. The president looked at me with horror on his face. "Limbaugh, you're going to ruin your blue suit. This is the White House, shape up, man." I didn't know what he was talking about. "You've got salad dressing all over your napkin." (laughing) So just I'm sitting there, I'm laughing, everybody's laughing, so we had lunch, it was off the record. I mean, some of these people that had been invited up here the last week are going in for exit interviews where the president gives them a lowdown and things that he's done that he wants remembered and so forth. This was a friendly thing, all the policy stuff was off the record, and with ten minutes left in lunch, the door opens and three stewards walk in with a little chocolate birthday cake that has four candles in it, and they're lighted, and there's a little chocolate microphone on the plate with the chocolate birthday cake. My mouth falls open and I'm just in stunned disbelief, but I'm trying to act cool, I'm like, "Ah, this is no big deal, this happens to me all the time." Yeah, ranch dressing on the napkin, I'm trying to act cool here like this is all no big deal. (laughing)
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So anyway, they put the cake in front of me, and the president, "Don't blow it out yet," he and Gillespie stand up, they stand behind me, photographer comes in, he starts snapping pictures while the president and Gillespie and the stewards sing happy birthday to me, and I'm sitting there just choked up and I'm saying to myself, "I just wish my parents were alive so that I could be able to show them the pictures here and to tell them about this." And then after they finished singing happy birthday -- and I'm sure that I'm beet red in the face -- the president sits back down and says, "Well, let's have a couple bites and we gotta go because I got this Medal of Freedom ceremony. You're coming, aren't you, Limbaugh?" I said, "Yeah, I'd be honored to go in there."
Rush Limbaugh chats with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Medal of Freedom Ceremony at the White House, January 13, 2009.
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