Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016Washington Times, Nov 7, 2017, Joseph Curl
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Said Updegrove: “George W. Bush himself said in 2016 privately, and then to me, that ‘You know, I fear that I will be the last Republican president.’ And it wasn’t just about Hillary Clinton becoming president, as the Republican Party was having a difficult time finding itself. It was because Donald Trump represented everything that the Bushes abhorred,” the author told CNN.
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In the first chapter, George W. Bush calls the notion that he was the “prodigal son,” a reference to a wayward son in the Bible, “bullshit.” And in a 2012 interview with Mr. Updegrove, Mr. Bush told the historian he “chased a lot of pu**y and drank a lot of whiskey” as a young man, but added, “I was never the prodigal son because I never left my family.”
George Jr., by the way, also wanted to set the record straight. He said Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, “didn’t make one f*cking decision” while he was president.
So much for stoic elder statesmen.
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