Secretariat
09-30-2006, 07:00 PM
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/30/ex_presidential_aide_confirms_accounts_in_new_book/
Card proposed replacements for Rumsfeld
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | September 30, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Andrew H. Card Jr. , President Bush's former chief of staff, confirmed in an interview last night that he suggested replacements for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and decided to quit his own post because ``I think America was crying out for some kind of change. I felt that very strongly."
Card, who left the White House in April , made his comments in a telephone conversation from California after reading excerpts from a forthcoming book, ``State of Denial," by Bob Woodward.
The book reports that Card twice urged Bush to replace Rumsfeld, including once with the backing of Laura Bush.
Card is a former Massachusetts legislator known for his low-key style and loyalty to Bush. He described life during more than five years in the White House as being in a sometimes-frenetic mixing bowl of Type A personalities.
As chief of staff, he said, he sometimes viewed his job this way: ``When people would throw sand in somebody's underwear, my job was to take it out."
Card proposed replacements for Rumsfeld
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | September 30, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Andrew H. Card Jr. , President Bush's former chief of staff, confirmed in an interview last night that he suggested replacements for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and decided to quit his own post because ``I think America was crying out for some kind of change. I felt that very strongly."
Card, who left the White House in April , made his comments in a telephone conversation from California after reading excerpts from a forthcoming book, ``State of Denial," by Bob Woodward.
The book reports that Card twice urged Bush to replace Rumsfeld, including once with the backing of Laura Bush.
Card is a former Massachusetts legislator known for his low-key style and loyalty to Bush. He described life during more than five years in the White House as being in a sometimes-frenetic mixing bowl of Type A personalities.
As chief of staff, he said, he sometimes viewed his job this way: ``When people would throw sand in somebody's underwear, my job was to take it out."