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Glen Beck has really been hot on this topic for a couple of months. And he recently had an interview with President George H.W.Bush (#41). He couldn't talk specifics about what was said but did so in general terms and spoke glowly about Bush as a person.

Beck said was that although Bush was a heck of a nice and caring guy, he had incredibly sad eyes and seemed deeply distressed about something.

I like Glen Beck (in small doses), but I couldn't help but wonder why Bush should grant him as interview. That seemed odd. I also wondered if the sadness stemmed from Bush's recent realizations of the connections between OKC and 9/11, and the role that prior administrations (principly Clinton, but Bush too in a smaller way) played in downplaying the Muslim terrorist threat.

My conclusion was that Bush asked to speak to Beck to talk about OKC -- what Beck knows, thinks, is pushing on his show, etc. -- and to maybe ask him to slow up, speed up, or to give him more facts or a different perspective/spin. Bush may have been a proxy for his son Pres. Bush (a sitting president can hardly sit down with a radio talk show host). The administration may been consideriing going public with the OKC/9/11 connections if needed to build support for attacking Iraq, which does not seem to be necessary now that the public is comfortable going after Saddam even without this as a reason.

If you listen to Beck regularly, can you tell me if he continued to talk about OKC and its connections to 9/11 after he and Bush spoke?