George H. W. Bush Quotes
You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
Bush, George H. W. Interview with David Frost. Talking with David Frost, PBS, 1997.
President Carter had just held Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David for thirteen days, until they reached an agreement on governing Sinai, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Califano wrote this to Carter in his note the following day.
The Senator was blaming President Clinton for not stopping the attack on the U. S. Cole as he knew that there were hostile Islamic extremists who were known to have threatened to attack American assets wherever they were. His view was that given that President Clinton should have acted overtly and/or covertly to prevent the attack. This failure for him was an impeachable offence. He argued that George W. Bush was assuming the Presidency and this laxness and incompetence that lead to the death of 17 American sailors would end. And then came 9-11 with the same level of general information and some even more specific information and 3000 Americans were killed. However, unlike Lott, almost no one blamed President Bush’s lack of leadership for the attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Lott seemed to forget his standard of presidential performance and did not criticize or urge the impeachment of the President of his own party.
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician, diplomat and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, Bush also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence.
