Posted on 09/30/2006 11:30:15 AM PDT by notes2005
(CBS) Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward writes in his new book of fierce efforts inside the White House to get rid of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a revelation that has caused a tremendous amount of concern at the White House.
In Mike Wallace’s interview with Woodward, to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, the reporter also claims that Henry Kissinger is among those advising Mr. Bush.
Woodward writes that several people inside the White House have pushed to oust Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The ranks of those calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation included the president's then Chief of Staff, Andy Card, apparently with the backing of First Lady Laura Bush.
As CBS News correspondent David Martin reports, Woodward tells Wallace that after President Bush was re-elected, Card tried for months to convince the president to fire Rumsfeld.
"It wasn’t working. Card felt very strongly that the president needed a whole new national security team," Woodward tells Wallace.
Laura Bush was also worried that Rumsfeld was hurting her husband, Martin reports. When Andy Card told her that the president seemed happy with Rumsfeld, Woodward says that Mrs. Bush replied, "He's happy with this, but I'm not." Later, she said, "I don’t know why he’s not upset."
"What’s interesting, Andy Card, as White House Chief of Staff, every six weeks set up a one-on-one meeting with Laura Bush. And in the course of these sessions, the problem with Rumsfeld came up, and she voiced her concern about the situation," Woodward tells Wallace.
The First Lady’s office says that's not true, Martin reports, but according to Woodward, Card had at least one other high-level ally: Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell, who himself was leaving the administration, told Card, "If I go, Don should go."
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Yeah right. Bob Casey told Woodward so on his death bed.
We can always count on Bob at election time.
He's booked on all the shows whereas O'Reilly and his book are not.
It's nice to know that on some things, the President doesn't stand behind his finger-in-the-wind advisors.
Andy Card is gone, and since we've already had a co-presidency, I doubt this President is going there!
Speaking of Laura... What the heck was that about that I heard 'em talking about on KSFO yesterday about her hangin with Clinton, Gore and the crazed British Billionaire, et al at that insane Global Warming gig that Bill Clinton organized? They were even saying that Laura has said that she's actually a Democrat at heart, or some such garbage! I couldn't believe my ears!!!
Tee hee, more whining from Powell! LOL.....oh it does my heart good that the opportunist is outtathere! And Dr. Rice is in his place! And Rummy is still there!
Laura is quite liberal. It was she behind the nomination of Harriet Miers.
She has no expertise on defense or foreign policy matters. Why her opinion matters more than Bush's staff is a subject of wonderment.
Laura calls woodward a LIAR!
LLS
That's one thing Woodward said that I believe. Powell being the back stabber that he is would definitely want Rumsfeld who is loyal to the President to get the ax.
Consider the source ... if there is any concern at the White House, it would be concerning the betrayal of trust by someone within the inner circle. Laura had a concern that rummy's bad press would hurt her husband? Whoop-te-doo. What wife wouldn't at least voice that concern? What is good to know is that Laura does NOT set policy and that GWB stands behind a good man even if he gets pressure from the love of his life.
What a crap. I don't believe a word of it
Laura's staff denied she said this. Andy Card has always been loyal to Pres Bush and kept the WH buckled down as much as possible wrt to leaks (the LSM has howled for 6 years that this is 'the most secretive WH in history'. I find it very difficult to believe that this happened, and,if it did, that Andy would divulge it to B.S. Woodward.
BTW - poor Laura is hosting the National Book Festival in DC today and BW will be on trying to sell is book (on C-Spam)
Not that I believe anything that lying liberal writes, but I would consider it a sign of real leadership that a President would not let his wife run the country. That's another difference between George Bush and Billy Jeff.
Even when the OLD MEDIA gets it wrong they can never admit it!
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CNN
Friday, May 14, 2004
guess who just may call the shots on Donald Rumsfeld's fate?
Look out for Laura
Laura Bush's words likely will be seen as having foreshadowed the end of Rumsfeld's career as secretary of defense.
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You mean Bill Casey. Great minds think alike.
signed:D. Rather(aka Kenneth)
Woodward must be talking to dead people again. (Bill Casey was President Reagan's CIA director who somehow gave Woodward an exclusive though he despised dishonesty in the press--and was about to succumb.)
Another one of these long rambling conversations Bob Woodward had with dying people, which he took down verbatim, and reproduced from his encyclopedic memory.
BOB WOODWARD PUTS WORDS IN PEOPLE'S MOUTHS THEY NEVER SAID!!
There, the secret that Bob Woodward swore never to reveal until he himself was lying on his deathbed.
And then only after he had fallen into a coma.
Nothing more need be said. I believe several quotes that Woodward has attributed to Administration and military officials have been refuted by those who were supposed to have made them.
Is that a polite way of saying old arsehole?
I want front page coverage from all news media.
Hummm...I wonder if bashing Bush might be the ticket...
Yeah....That's the ticket!
If that's the case seems a lot of folks around here have been ahead of the curve all along.
Typical Woodward. What a garbage journalist.
Laura has never claimed to be a Republican. She has never claimed to be a Democrat either except in the sense that her family were Democrats.
What the hay, I am a Texas Republican since Barry Goldwater, and my family except for my parents (who usually voted for Republicans because they understood where the Dems seemed to be headed) were historically all Democrats. There was a time, back when, when Texas was almost exclusively Democrat. Laura was from a family that was stuck in that tradition.
And lots of those Democrats were conservative, back then.
I don't know if she said anything at the conference about being a Democrat at heart. I find that hard to believe, but I can imagine her joking about her family roots as a Democrat.
Laura is very philanthropic. She wants to help people around the world who need help. Especially in education and literacy but other ways as well. That was no doubt why she participated in the conference.
LOL.
Come on. Do you really thing Woodward is privy to "pillow talk" between the President and the first lady. Consider the source.
O ye of little faith.
It does not. And, it did not. Bush kept my favorite - Rummy!!
So, Andy Card is removed from his position in the Bush White House, and now Woodward writes in his book that this "fired" staffer claims Laura wanted Rumsfeld fired? And we are expected to believe this guy?
Sounds to me like Woodward is pretending that he has another Deep Throat.
She wanted Donald Rumsfeld out and Harriet Miers in.
'Nuff said.
If you ask me, I'd say he has an agenda of his own, and doesn't mind trampling on the good names of others in order to achieve it.
Ok, I'm trying to imagine Laura Bush not knowing why George Bush is not upset. LOL.
Andy was dis-Carded for good old-fashioned incompetence. Colon Bowel was removed because he was the author of the nation-building program otherwise known as the "if you break it, you own it" policy; because he couldn't cajole the UN to get involved in Post-Saddam Iraq; and because he control the leaky renegades at Foggy Bottom (to include one DoS pensioner named Joe Wilson). Rummy was retained because his original "strategery" of defeating, disarming and dispersing the Baathist/Sunni/Saddamite Iraqi Army, locating and destroying the WMDs, standing up a (predominantly Shiite) Provisional Iraqi Government with the eminently malleable Chalabi as its president, arming the Kurds and Shiites so that they could bear the brunt of the inevitable "civil war" with the Sunnis and "foreign fighters", and focusing US and Coalition efforts on finding Saddam, WMDs and protecting Iraq's oil facilities was a Campaign plan that would have produced better results faster.
I don't believe this for a second. It's just Woodward making noise before the election.
Rumsfeld weathers every storm because he listens well and carries out effectively.
That's the longest sentence I've read in a long time.
Thanks
FMCDH(BITS)
The quote I long to hear from Laura
"Bob Woodward lives a rich fantasy life."
If she said anything of the kind, it was a joke and everyone who heard her knew it was.
I don't think she did, because the last thing she would do is undermine her husband in any way at all and she is always careful about her remarks.
I cannot even imagine her trying to interfere in Bush's appointments or his foreign policy, other than private comments to him.
W is just trying to be relevant again and sell some books.
This book is nothing but a get Rummy fired stunt
And it's a load of BS
You actually beleived that??
Oh please .. Laura Bush is a Clinton groupie???
Oh FGS
Card? Was he pushed out?
Woodward is usually able to commune with unconscious people near death, but these two people are alive and well and able to testify to the truth.
IIRC Card was pushing the idea of going into Iraq
this? ... what is this?? what is the subject ? taken out of context?
Of course it is. And the bit about Laura is utter codswallop!
Woodward tailors his books to whatever's trendy.
George Bush as a Great War Leader was in vogue when he wrote his last two books. The administration LOVED those books, and the libs hated them. White House staffers gave them to each other as Christmas gifts; "Plan of Attack" was listed at one of the GOP websites as a recommended read.
Since then, public opinion has turned against the war in Iraq, so now he writes a book portraying the administration as incompetent or worse. Guess the WH won't be recommending or giving each other this one.
Woodward tailors his books to whatever's trendy.
George Bush as a Great War Leader was in vogue when he wrote his last two books. The administration LOVED those books, and the libs hated them. White House staffers gave them to each other as Christmas gifts; "Plan of Attack" was listed at one of the GOP websites as a recommended read.
Since then, public opinion has turned against the war in Iraq, so now he writes a book portraying the administration as incompetent or worse. Guess the WH won't be recommending or giving each other this one.
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