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Bill Clinton Was George W. Bush's Secret White House Whisperer
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| September 8, 2014
| Russell Berman
Posted on 09/08/2014 8:34:17 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
George W. Bush was known and often criticized for being insular during his eight years in the White House, but he made regular calls to a surprising adviser during his second term: his predecessor.
Bill Clinton revealed on Monday that the second President Bush picked his brain twice a year for 30-45 minutes, in wide-ranging conversations that no doubt set the stage for the surprising, "brother-from-another-mother" relationship that the two ex-presidents now share.
Bush would call Clinton "just to talk," during his last four years in the White House, the Democrat said in a joint event at the Newseum in Washington.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; bushsbrain; clinton; georgewbush; hillary2016; mythmaking; yahoobias
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To: married21
Lines from the movie “Maltese Falcon.”
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09/09/2014 6:36:33 AM PDT
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Henchster
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To: Milton Miteybad; virgil283; Rembrandt; GeronL
I don't find this too surprising. There have been fewer than 50 people who have held the job of President, the vast majority of them now being deceased. There aren't that many people around who may have dealt with the same issues a President faces, and the current President may think that the input of one of his predecessors may be of some value in dealing with this problem or that. Recall when Bill Clinton consulted with Richard Nixon (whom his wife zealously pursued once upon a time).
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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09/09/2014 6:40:13 AM PDT
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a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: Milton Miteybad
History is filled with advice and direction from the minds of greater men than Bill. History rhymes after all and a really conceited leader is one who thinks their problems are new or fairly new.
I would "shoot the sh!t" with past Presidents like Clinton, but I would never seek the advice from a post-modernist Marxist man-whore whose ideology is an adversary to one that promotes liberty and harmony.
If anything I would attempt to subtly cross-examine Clinton, especially with the Chinese connection. Bush probably shoot the sh!t and going by his policies, sought out advice on how to triangulate (Which causes long-term problems down the road).
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09/09/2014 7:15:18 AM PDT
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rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: kevkrom
Bush talked to Clinton because BOTH WERE LIBERALS.
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09/09/2014 8:59:20 AM PDT
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NKP_Vet
To: a fool in paradise
Nixon was a SOCIAL LIBERAL.
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09/09/2014 9:00:24 AM PDT
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NKP_Vet
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