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  • Wead Has Regrets, Will Give Tapes to Bush

    02/23/2005 1:20:49 PM PST · by hope · 77 replies · 1,716+ views
    News Max ^ | 2-23-05
    Reprinted from NewsMax.com Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005 3:51 p.m. ESTWead Has Regrets, Will Give Tapes to Bush An old friend of President Bush who secretly recorded their private conversations and released them to the media said he has regrets and is turning the tapes over to Bush. Doug Wead allowed journalists to hear and broadcast the tapes in the past week as he promoted his new book on presidential parents. But he said he canceled plans to be on "Hardball" on MSNBC Tuesday night to talk about his regrets because "it would only add to the distraction I have caused...
  • Adams: Bush 'Burning' Over Tapes

    02/23/2005 12:28:41 PM PST · by ArmyBratproud · 49 replies · 1,896+ views
    newsmax.com ^ | Feb. 23, 2005
    President Bush is reportedly furious after being betrayed by author Doug Wead, who tape-recorded their private phone conversations, then played the tapes, first for his publisher, then for the New York Times. "Dubya's become a Burning Bush over it," reports the New York Post's Cindy Adams. "And rightly so. With pals like Friend Wead, who needs enemies?" -snip- "Around publishing water coolers it's being whispered and rewhispered that Friend Wead played them for his publisher as a marketing tool," the Post columnist reports. "Marketing for himself, that is." It was Wead's "financial ploy," she says. "The tapes are what got...