George Bush - Obama Presidency Oral History Back George Bush Index / People Transcripts Michael Leiter ...every Tuesday with the president—so President Bush , Vice President Cheney, his ke... ...the Oval Office after the election, and President Bush kind of turned to me after one of thes... ...really good.” And, as I learned later, President Bush himself saying to President Obama, “Yo... ...with President Obama than they were President Bush . Honestly, I'm not sure anyone kne... ...fine with me, and I would say, even President Bush —we laughed in the Oval Office, and i... ...if I put the two men side by side, President Bush is a little bit more pal-around gu... ...remember the last time I spent with President Bush in the Oval Office, that he put his ar... ...and counter-radicalization with President Bush was probably a losing game. We investe... ...the Bush administration. I don't blame President Bush for that at the end. I think he wante... ...It's a terrible messaging thing. President Bush wanted to close it too. There's ... ...it was sort of constant briefing up to President Bush , and then we decided we needed anothe... Show more... Jefferey DeLaurentis ...the Elián González saga. Then when President [George W.] Bush came into power, they reversed most o... Jake Sullivan ...and the road map came later in President Bush 's term. So the idea was, Let's go a... Bernie Aronson ...President Obama did vis-à-vis Cuba and President George W. Bush did very different. And toward... Jeff Flake ...been used to with the president, when President [George W.] Bush would get up and speak, you'd always b... ...the travel ban and I just couldn't get President Bush to sign it. That was an endless topi... ...of disagreement between myself and President Bush , and especially Karl Rove. [Laughter... ...Well, I knew that I could, and frankly, President Bush had set a good example there. When h... ...out, I was elected at the same time President Bush was. His first initiative was No Chil... ...stick in their craw, but I agreed with President Bush on immigration. He was very forwar... ...lift the travel ban, but couldn't get President Bush to sign it. By the time President Obam... ...did work with the president on Africa. President Bush had been involved in Africa quit... Show more... Michael Mullen ...was when Obama won. And I really give President Bush a lot of credit. It was very clear tha... ...I recall, proposal—and, again, I give President Bush a lot of credit here—let's say i... ...the date, and this is where I thought President Bush , again, showed great wisdom. He wante... ...Putin. I was there when, obviously, President Bush tried to do that, mostl... Michael Morell ... It was a conversation I had with President [George W.] Bush , for example, when I was his firs... ...thing to do. When I was briefing President Bush , and I walked in in the morning, and ... ...Mr. President.” I remember showing President Bush a piece of intelligence one mornin... ...they thought he wanted to hear. And President Bush responded by looking at me and saying... ...And we had explicit instructions from President Bush . The sitting president has to approv... ...current president has to approve this. President Bush did, but he said, “The president-elec... ...get briefed. But nobody else.” And George Bush controlled the distribution of th... ...and said, “Hey, I want the PDB too.” President Bush had told me, “I want to approv... ...to approve everybody.” So I said to President Bush , at the end of one of the briefings... ...anybody else in the room. But until President Bush approves my team getting briefed, I'... ...had a completely different style than President Bush . President Obama would read the piec... ...important.” So that was one, which George Bush had learned. Intelligence, I woul... ...this particular policy objective.” George Bush had a whole bunch of those. And o... ...those. Those were authorized by President Bush . I was not in the room, but I hear... ...we been more clear about that, would President Bush have done something differently? ... ...read that you briefed former President Bush about that. I wonder if there is a... ...Obama made when we were certain was to President Bush , which says a lot about Presiden... ...Obama, knowing that I was with President Bush on nine-eleven, sent me to Dallas. H... ...I want you to go to Dallas and brief President Bush on the operation.” So two weeks afte... ...an update on the hunt for bin Laden. So President Bush remembered many of those. After tw... ...imagine, so we're staying home.” A George Bush joke. He gave us all his commander i... Show more... William Burns ...in government. I think it's a credit to President Bush and to his team, to Josh Bolten, th... ...the Bush forty-three administration and President Bush himself had attached to Africa... ...war in Iraq or the freedom agenda that President Bush talked about in his second term. Thi... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Education Education go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Immigration Immigration