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Ex-Bushies Nervous About Book

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Speechwriter Matt Latimer memoir to tell all.

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Anticipating a new memoir is torture for Bush officials. The Washington Post reports that Bush White House officials are feeling anxious about Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer's forthcoming memoir. Among the tidbits reportedly in the book: what senior White House aides said privately about Harriet Miers; Bush confessing that his dog, Barney, was the son he never had; National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley's penchant for eating off a silver platter and how Karl Rove mocked Hadley by serving him off a silver tray himself; and what the Bushies really thought about everyone from Bill Clinton to Obama to Palin.

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