Former President George W. Bush considered dropping his vice president Dick Cheney from the 2004 ticket, according to his memoir, “Decision Points.” The book will be released Nov. 9. He would have replaced Cheney with Bill Frist, he wrote.
It was Cheney’s suggestion, but Bush decided that Cheney’s value as an adviser justified keeping him despite the intense negative publicity he drew. The New York Times reported on the content in the book on Nov. 2. The book was embargoed.
Bush said he chose to structure his book differently than a chronological memoir, in a video on the Barnes and Noble website. The book is organized around turning points in his life and presidency, including the moment he stopped drinking at age 40, the Sept. 11 attacks, starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and “deciding to put ideology aside” to bail out banks after the 2008 financial crisis.
He said in the video that one of the greatest regrets in his life was the inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
It was Cheney’s suggestion, but Bush decided that Cheney’s value as an adviser justified keeping him despite the intense negative publicity he drew. The New York Times reported on the content in the book on Nov. 2. The book was embargoed.
Bush said he chose to structure his book differently than a chronological memoir, in a video on the Barnes and Noble website. The book is organized around turning points in his life and presidency, including the moment he stopped drinking at age 40, the Sept. 11 attacks, starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and “deciding to put ideology aside” to bail out banks after the 2008 financial crisis.
He said in the video that one of the greatest regrets in his life was the inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
