Bush speaks with father’s biographer

The controversy over revelations made by President George H.W. Bush in a new biography could spell trouble for the struggling presidential campaign of his son, Jeb Bush.

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Former President George W. Bush signs copies of “41: A Portrait of My Father” Thursday morning at the Barnes & Noble store on Northwest Highway in Dallas.

The elder Bush was a far more emotional person than the image he presented publicly, Meacham said.

The headlines generated by the book in recent days have focused on Bush’s criticism of his son’s top national-security advisers, then-Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for giving the second Bush administration a harsh and hawkish tone.

According to The New York Times, Bush’s evolution on marriage equality is described in the book.

Sunday night’s conversation instead focused mainly on stories of the 41st president. As Ronald Reagan’s loyal running mate and vice president, 41 suppressed and altered his personal positions (remember “voodoo economics”?). The biography, which George W. Bush called “the first serious biography” of his dad, was based largely on interviews and the elder Bush’s diaries.

He has previously said he believed his father was “overshadowed by a very transformative president”, but that he is “the greatest one-term president in our nation’s history”.

Even for a Waspy American family with scorn for introspection and a long tradition of fathers not weighing in, choosing to let their sons make their own life choices, it’s remarkable that two presidents who went to war with the same Iraqi dictator can bluntly talk to each other only through a biographer.

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Bush complimented Meacham’s work, saying it was “a damn good book”.

“This is a man who turned on the tape recorder and told the truth”.

“I do worry about some of the rhetoric that was out there – some of it his, maybe, and some of it the people around him”, Mr Bush said in the book.