George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points will hit stores November 9, but Bush already has a White House memoir. In the last days of his presidency, Bush staffers scrambled to salvage his legacy in a slim, 128-page book called A Charge Kept, reports The Daily Beast's Bryan Curtis.
As the final year of his administration saw an imploding economy and two difficult wars, Bushies believed they would be vindicated by history. The team had only a few months to plow through thousands of memos, on everything from the Iraq War to the protection of the striped bass. The result is telling. Despite his reputation as Bush's co-president, Dick Cheney is mentioned only once after the introduction. Laura Bush gets five full pages.
Bush clearly thinks he was dealt a lousy hand when he was sworn into office, and the book portrays him as a decisive leader in a stormy world. The Bushies dumped the thing in pdf form online and it went unnoticed—until now.
Read it at The Daily Beast
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