Security Council: January 30 2001 (1) from bookish, a weblog by George Girton

Security Council: January 30 2001 (1) . . . . . mar 25 2004 — bookish104.dat

You might check out Ron Suskind's book about Paul O'Neill's stint as Secretary of the Treasury in the Bush administration. The substance of this book hasn't received the press it deserves. For example, the account of the very first Bush Security Council meeting on January 30, 2001, ten days after the Bush inauguration, is quite instructive. In what some present see as a scripted exchange, Bush and Rice shift the focus to Iraq. 'He turned to Rice. "So, Condi, what are we going to talk about today? What's on the agenda?"
"How Iraq is destabilizing the region, Mr. President," Rice said.

Obtain and read: The Price of Loyalty [buy at amazon] . by Paul O'Neill, former U.S. Treasury Secretary (GWBush Admin), former CEO, Alcoa Corp.

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