WASHINGTON (AP) — George W. Bush said that during his two terms in office, he rarely called on his father’s counsel. But there were exceptions,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — George W. Bush said that during his two terms in office, he rarely called on his father’s counsel. But there were exceptions, intersections where the personal drifted into the presidential.
A look at some of those times, as cited by Bush in his 2014 book “A Portrait of My Father,” about George H. W. Bush. The elder Bush died late Friday at age 94.
— The younger Bush asked his dad what he thought about making Dick Cheney his vice presidential choice, and his father approved. Cheney was the elder Bush’s defense chief and the most influential of the people who served the 41st president to work for the 43rd.
— The elder Bush confessed to “uncontrollable sobs” that wracked his body when he watched on TV as his son reacted to the Supreme Court decision settling the 2000 election in his favor.
