President George H.W. Bush in interviews to Jon Meacham for the book, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush:
"I don't feel close to Hillary at all but I do to Bill and I can't read their relationship even today."
"I feel like an asterisk. I am lost between the glory of Reagan--monuments everywhere, trumpets, the great hero--and the trials a d tribulations of my sons."
On history's judgement of him:
"What if they just find an empty deck of cards?"
Honest, good insight, poignant. Who amongst us doesn't have approximate thoughts of the Clinton's? Bill is, seemingly, easier to get to know, more likable. Hillary, there is a distance there, isn't there, don't you feel it too? "You're likable enough, Hillary," Obama said during their primary campaigns. And who understands their marriage?
Perfectly put, feels "like an asterisk."
"An empty deck of cards:" Ow. Ow, but yeah, kinda. He was the most prepared man ever to become president. I admired him as a person. I used to hold him up as an example to my little boy. He was so generous when he was young he got the nickname "Have Half;" shared so much and so willingly they called him "Have Half." Admired him so much, especially in contrast to "Slick Willie," that I made the mistake of voting for him in 1992. I just want to shoot myself in the head when I think of that. He was not a good president and Bill Clinton was a good president. I, along with so many others, just got burned out with "Clinton Fatigue," the personal scandals and quasi-scandals, the continual drama, I don't like to hear Bill speak even today, and I never liked Hillary to speak. I am just sick of them. But Bill for all of it was a better president than George H.W. Bush. It was my personal, psychic nightmare that I could be faced with a Bush v Clinton II vote. My angst has receded on that.
"I don't feel close to Hillary at all but I do to Bill and I can't read their relationship even today."
"I feel like an asterisk. I am lost between the glory of Reagan--monuments everywhere, trumpets, the great hero--and the trials a d tribulations of my sons."
On history's judgement of him:
"What if they just find an empty deck of cards?"
Honest, good insight, poignant. Who amongst us doesn't have approximate thoughts of the Clinton's? Bill is, seemingly, easier to get to know, more likable. Hillary, there is a distance there, isn't there, don't you feel it too? "You're likable enough, Hillary," Obama said during their primary campaigns. And who understands their marriage?
Perfectly put, feels "like an asterisk."
"An empty deck of cards:" Ow. Ow, but yeah, kinda. He was the most prepared man ever to become president. I admired him as a person. I used to hold him up as an example to my little boy. He was so generous when he was young he got the nickname "Have Half;" shared so much and so willingly they called him "Have Half." Admired him so much, especially in contrast to "Slick Willie," that I made the mistake of voting for him in 1992. I just want to shoot myself in the head when I think of that. He was not a good president and Bill Clinton was a good president. I, along with so many others, just got burned out with "Clinton Fatigue," the personal scandals and quasi-scandals, the continual drama, I don't like to hear Bill speak even today, and I never liked Hillary to speak. I am just sick of them. But Bill for all of it was a better president than George H.W. Bush. It was my personal, psychic nightmare that I could be faced with a Bush v Clinton II vote. My angst has receded on that.
