Bush Memoirs to Explain How He Made Big Policy Decisions

John D. McKinnon reports on the White House. President George W. Bush will devote his planned memoir to explaining his big post-9/11 policy decisions, an aide said. It’s further evidence of the extent to which the terrorist attacks have dominated his presidency. It also could be evidence of how much Bush – despite his thick skin – felt frustrated and hamstrung by the criticism that trailed his 9/11 response. “One of the things I’ve heard him say is that he wants to talk [in the book] about some of the big decisions that he’s made over the course of his presidency, and reset the scene for what it was like when those decisions were made,” press secretary Dana Perino told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Friday morning. “I do think it’s hard for us to remember [that] during 9/11 or in the aftermath of 9/11, everybody was pointing fingers, saying, `Why didn’t you connect the dots?’” she said. “And then the president institutes policies to connect the dots, and ... (link)