What does First Lady Barbara Bush think of the book? There are fat people ahead of you” at the Houston marathon,” and telling you, “You can’t win,” when you ran for governor. HH: (laughing) In the book there are a lot of good portraits, and your funniest critic, she’s probably not your toughest critic, but your funniest, is First Lady Barbara Bush yelling at you, “Keep moving, George. HH: I’m great, and congratulations, four weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list for Decision Points. Bush, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show, great to have you. Sadly, the orange coffee mug he is holding in the back jacket photo of Decision Points is not a Browns’ mug. Perhaps he will come back after the book tour slows down.Ī transcript will be posted here later, and the interview plays in the first and third hour of today’s program. I got through about a third of my questions. It is a fascinating read, and our conversation covers some of the most interesting passages, including those about election 2000, the job of picking generals, Lincoln and Truman, his reading habits while president - Lee Childs and Tim Keller will be happy to hear they are on the president’s current reading list, joining Vince Flynn and Daniel Silva there– as well as Vladimir Putin and the problem of leaking operatives in the CIA. I just concluded an interview with President Bush about his new memoir, Decision Points.
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