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Two Advisers Reflect on Eight Years With Bush

 

Published 1/2/2009 by Michael Abramowitz at Wash Post Obama Administration

White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley remember conferring with President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq war, in 2005 and 2006, when violence was out of control. In daily 7 a.m. meetings in the Oval Office, Bush reviewed "blue sheets"... (link)

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