AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
bush memoir
Schroeder: Bush 'Not Telling Truth' in Memoir
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 11) -- Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder says George W. Bush is "not telling the truth" in a passage from his newly released memoir in which he accuses Germany of breaking its promise to support the Iraq war. In his book, Bush recounts an Oval Office meeting in January 2002 where he told Schroeder he intended to invade Iraq if all diplomatic efforts failed. He quotes Schroeder as agreeing with him, saying "what is true of Afghanistan is true of Iraq." "Nations that sponsor terror must face consequences," Bush quotes Schroeder as saying. "If you make it fast and make it ...
Bush: 'Damn Right' on Waterboarding
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 9) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush says that information obtained from terrorist suspects subjected to "waterboarding" thwarted what could have been spectacular attacks in London. Bush told The Times of London that the coercive interrogation technique -- where water is poured over a person's mouth and nose, simulating the effects of drowning -- had helped reveal plots to attack London's Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf, one of the British capital's main financial districts. "Three people were waterboarded, and I believe that decision saved lives," he told the paper, ...
Bush Takes a Shot at McCain in His 'Decision Points' Memoir
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- George W. Bush once kicked John McCain when he was a threat, but now he's kicking him when he's down. In his new memoir, "Decision Points," Bush says McCain responded poorly to the financial crisis and should have asked him for help in taking on Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race. McCain may be guilty of the first charge: As the financial crisis exploded, the Arizona senator suspended his campaign, then quickly backtracked, all the while offering no substantive proposals for righting the nation's economy. But as for the second claim, Bush had only a 25 percent approval ...
Bush Considered Dropping Cheney From 2004 Ticket
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 3) -- George W. Bush considered dropping Dick Cheney from his 2004 re-election bid to dispel the vice president's image as the "Darth Vader" of the White House and to "demonstrate that I was in charge," the former president writes in a new memoir. The new book, "Decision Points," is due out next week, but The New York Times obtained a copy on Tuesday. In it, Bush says Cheney "had become a lightning rod for criticism from the media and the left." "He was seen as dark and heartless -- the Darth Vader of the administration," Bush writes. Matthew Cavanaugh, Getty Images President George ...
'Decision Points,' George W. Bush's Memoir, Set for November Release
By David Sessions - Politics DailyFormer President George W. Bush's highly anticipated memoir will be titled "Decision Points" and will be available Nov. 9, The Associated Press reports. Crown, the publisher, announced the title and revealed the cover for the book on Sunday. Bush has given few interviews about his presidency since leaving office, but has spent nearly every day working on the book, Crown said in a statement. "Decision Points" will not be a traditional memoir, instead fleshing out key decisions in Bush's life and presidency, which the former president chronicles in a "candid" and "personal" tone, according to ...
George W. Bush Lands $7 Million Book Deal
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to book industry sources, Crown publishers has agreed to pay former president George W. Bush a cool $7 million for a memoir that is tentatively titled, Decision Points. The "decider", it turns out, is already a good way through the project. The Daily Beast reports that 30,000 words have been written so far. Because every piece of news is a partisan contest of some sort or other, liberal readers will, no doubt, be quick to point out that Bill Clinton received an advance of $8 million for the less artfully titled, My Life. So what kind of prose can we expect from a man so inspired by ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics