George Bush - Obama Presidency Oral History Back George Bush Index / People Transcripts Rahm Emanuel ...and loan bill of basically—that was George Bush Forty-One. That was almost a ful... ...No. While I have my disagreements with George Bush —and we had a lot—he gets credit, ... ...we work through a lot of issues, and President Bush and Josh Bolten—when I left mayorship... ...agenda, and Bush had something for us. President Bush asked me, he said—he went through fiv... ...“I'll take the six weeks.” And, to President Bush 's credit, beyond the transition bein... ...stimulus for the auto industry. And, to President Bush 's credit, he did it. It could've bee... Show more... Lisa Monaco ...the end of the Bush administration. President Bush , very famously, also tried to clos... Jeffrey Bader ...coming up for a vote later that week. President George W. Bush had contacted him seeing if he woul... ...free and candid discussions. When under President George W. Bush , the strategic economic dialogue wa... ...in such activities, President Clinton, President Bush , and President Obama. The way it'... ...the strategic and economic dialogue. President Bush 's administration had strategi... Pete Souza ...January twentieth. I do remember when President Bush forty-three was inaugurated and I was ... Henry Paulson ...policy issues. When the time came that President Bush asked me to be Treasury secretary—an... ...and I wasn't sure I could work with President Bush . I was unhappy with the war. I didn'... ...is today, there was great dysfunction. President Bush was much lower in the approval rating... ...candidates both running against President Bush —not just President Obama, but Joh... ...House, I didn't hear about it. And President Bush had delegated. What was really uniqu... ...unique and really different about President Bush and President Obama—President Bus... ...President Bush and President Obama— President Bush really delegated, said, “We can have ... ...back and say, one of the reasons that President Bush persuaded me to join his administratio... ...our banking system. But I had to go to President Bush and say, “Guess what? [Laughs] We'r... ...Day, I was in the Rose Garden when George Bush was nominating me to be Treasur... ...2007, when I was up at the Hill with George Bush . And he, again, thanked me for bein... ...I would say this. I could not have— George Bush during the crisis, and maybe Presiden... ...I don't know that. All I can say was, President Bush said, “You're my wartime general. We'r... ...can only have one president, and that's George Bush . Keep us apprised. We hope you don'... ...been stigmatized, AIG was stigmatized. George Bush had never had any credibility wit... ...had enough to override the Senate. So, George Bush certainly didn't want to try to tak... ...some things. This was a decision that George Bush needed to make. I didn't want to b... ...good transition was the fact that President Bush had come into such a terrible situatio... ...this was a very objectionable thing for President Bush . But we put in capital to prop them u... ...on the TARP, the last thing President Bush wanted to do was with the politicall... ...bill opposing the TARP.” And George Bush said, “I don't want that to be the las... ...Josh Bolten, who was chief of staff to George Bush , talked with Rahm, who was going to b... ...and said, “With Paulson there and with George Bush in the White House, I'm sure they'l... ...done something like was done here? As George Bush once said to me—and he said this to m... ...And what the political people around George Bush were doing were trying to get som... ...I would just say, the other thing that George Bush did during the transition, which wa... ...global economy, this would be unwieldy. George Bush made the decision for a number o... ...at all? No. That was the last thing George Bush wanted there. He wanted to se... ...me would not help them politically. So, George Bush would call from time to time and ask... ...would say is, one of the promises that President Bush had made to recruit me to come t... ...It's an interesting thing. When I asked President Bush what was the thing he most regretted... ...I was very supportive of President Bush 's major economy initiative, whic... Show more... Josh Bolten ...talk about today was that it was, as President Bush pointedly noted to me in early 2008, i... ...during the few days of the handoff. President Bush was focused on both of those and, a... ...McCain. That did not at all diminish President Bush 's interest in making sure that th... ...my notes right, this began in 2007— President Bush asked you to do this? Was it in lat... ...the nature of your conversation with President Bush exactly around this, and maybe, as par... ...the words were direct, which was and is President Bush 's style, which is to say, what's o... ...party from the Republican Party? President Bush is nothing if not a great reader o... ...having to ask. They asked us, Would President Bush be willing to request the money fro... ...The president-elect has requested President Bush to notify Congress on his behalf of th... ...utilize the last tranche of TARP funds. President Bush supports the incoming president'... ...it easier for us to follow through on President Bush 's instincts. Bill, the one othe... ...to return, just to close the door on President Bush himself and his involvement. I wa... ...were talking, one final question about President Bush . There is a sense, from the way you'r... ...best they can, and root for them, which President Bush basically did. Whatever his polic... ...That had been a major anxiety of President Bush , that the period of transition, th... ...just thought of it. Of course, it was President Bush who convened the G20 for the first tim... ...president, and team, and family. President Bush , who by the way, I should say was no... ...It's worth looking at. In any event, President Bush was not down on Inauguration Day. ... ...Andrews Air Force base to meet up with President Bush for his ride home to Texas. I remembe... ...were with the incoming administration. President Bush , although a vigorous partisan, neve... Show more... John Podesta ...were ongoing meant something special to President Bush , that he felt that his administratio... ...has one president at a time. And President Bush was trying to steer things out of thi... ...huh? Yes. Since you mentioned President Bush , just let me—how directly was h... ...thing you asked me about, how hands-on President Bush was. One of the things that became ... ...that was fine with us. Do you know why President Bush thought this way? These are the mos... ...less of that. Although, like I said, President Bush had some encounters with, meetings wit... Show more... Dennis Van Roekel ...I don't believe that. I think President Bush was supportive of education, but it wa... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere