In today's Washington Post White House Briefing (which is essential reading every day), there are a few remarkable George Bush anecotes:
1. Presidential biking: "Bush does not ride quietly, constantly shouting out in his Texas twang the names of trees and geographic features and yelling at himself to pedal faster.
"'Air assault!' he yelled as he started one of two major climbs, up Calichi Hill, which he named for the white limestone rock from which it is formed."
Yes, he actually yelled out "air assault."
2. A gaze into the middle distance as a problem-solver, no experts required: "Bush said he spent the previous evening thinking about the Middle East while sitting on the porch of his ranchhouse waiting on first lady Laura Bush to arrive.
"'I was thinking about the right strategy for the United States in the Middle East. I spent a long time thinking about it, went in and wrote some notes, I then shared my thoughts this morning with some of my inner circle,' Bush said."
3. The cult of personality of the others who accept the above, such as National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley: "[Bush is] in the process, obviously, of developing an overall strategy for the Middle East as to sort of what comes next -- which is something that the President is good at and encourages us to do: How does this fit into an overall strategy? We had an opportunity to talk about that at lunch. "We then went off and did a number of things, in part carrying out what the President had directed us to do and then to get some additional information."
4. And finally a word from Jack Straw's former Best Friend Forever, Condi Rice: "But as the President said, this last three weeks has been .... time that's been well spent"
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