President Bush and "The Price of Loyalty"
United States president George Bush conducted cabinet meetings like "a blind man in a room full of deaf people" said former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill during an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes, in anticipation of a book about the Bush administration, "The Price of Loyalty".
Mr. O'Neill served as President Bush's Treasury Secretary for nearly two years and was known to speak his mind. He recalls that his first meeting with President Bush turned "into a monologue with the president simply listening and unwilling to engage in a discussion".
The former Treasury Secretary was fired in December 2002 after questioning some of President Bush's proposed tax cuts.
Paul O'Neill is the main source of "The Price of Loyalty", a book by journalist Ron Suskind from The Wall Street Journal.
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